Hanoi (VNA) ✅– In the time ahead, the northern province of Bac Giang will step up the mobilisation of social resources for vocational training to help improve the quality of local human resources, said the provincial People’s Committee.

The administration noted that from now to 2025, Bac Giang will boost attracting and diversifying investment sources, both the State budget and non-budget sources, for vocational education; increase engaging the private sector in the field to help build a learning society; and encourage employees of businesses to learn at work. It will pay more attention to improving the effectiveness and quality of investment attraction, with priority given to the projects employing skilled workers along with the enterprises which use modern technology, pledge to transfer technology to local firms, and actively take part in vocational training and manpower development. The province will encourage enterprises to place manpower training orders on educational establishments to improve their existing worker capacity and recruit new and capable staff. It will also call for their assistance in building infrastructure, purchasing equipment, and building training programmes. In the time to come, Bac Giang will strengthen vocational training cooperation with businesses, the provincial People’s Committee noted, adding that it will boost training human resources for key industries; invite companies to join boards of directors of schools and help build training, internship, and student performance assessment plans; and encourage businesses to recruit graduates and assist students to start their careers. Authorities will foster cooperation between local vocational training establishments with those in other localities. In addition, they will also enhance local establishments’ partnerships with qualified foreign vocational training facilities and international organisations to improve the quality of manpower training. Since 2021, the province has worked to mobilise resources for vocational education, attracting more than 465 billion VND (19.4 million USD) from private sources to help vocational training establishments build infrastructure, purchase equipment, building training programmes, open refresher courses for teachers and school managers, partner with businesses to arrange practices and internships, and grant scholarships to students. All establishments of vocational education in Bac Giang have formed partnerships with businesses operating in suitable sectors to design training curricula, assess training quality, and align the curricula with businesses’ requirements annually. They have also worked with enterprises to carry out scientific studies and apply new technologies to vocational education to improve training quality, according to the provincial People’s Committee. The Bac Giang Party Committee recently issued a plan for implementing the Party Central Committee Secretariat’s Directive No 21-CT/TW, dated May 4, 2023, on the continued reform, development, and improvement of vocational training quality until 2030, with a vision to 2045. The plan aims to continue reforming and strongly improving the quality and effectiveness of vocational education, improve the quality of human resources to meet demand in the labour market to serve local socioeconomic development, and create breakthroughs in developing human resources. The move will help with Vietnam’s industrialisation, modernisation and international integration as in line with the 13th National Party Congress’s resolution and the province’s orientations./.