The quality of skilled labour in Vietnam is still not meeting minimum standards, according to Le Thi Xuan Quynh, an official from the Central Institute for Economic Management.
Vocational training students at a technical school in HCM City. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) ༒– The quality of skilled labour in Vietnam is still notmeeting minimum standards, according to Le Thi Xuan Quynh, an official from theCentral Institute for Economic Management.
Quynh saidcurrently, the quality of Vietnam’s labour resources was still very low,reaching only 46 out of 100 points, ranking it number 103 in the world and farbehind the ASEAN-4 group. The country’s vocationaleducation and training sector was equipping learners with fundamentaltheoretical knowledge but was lacking in skills related to specificoccupations, she said. Do Thi Thuy Huong, amember of the Vietnam E-Business Association said that low labour costs andnatural resources would no longer be an advantage for Vietnamese electronicbusinesses moving forward. Businesses instead wouldrequire highly skilled workers and vocational education and traininginstitutions needed to develop a programme of equipping workers with"soft” skills such as loyalty, responsibility, and communication, Huongsaid. In May 2020, the PrimeMinister issued a directive on promoting the development of skilled humanresources that would contribute to improving labour productivity and increasingnational competitiveness. Localities were taskedwith effectively implementing mechanisms and policies to develop vocationaleducation and human resources. The directive said they should focus onundergoing digital transformations including developing online training. Regular training andretraining of the workforce were also recommended. It was recommended thatlearners get professional, digital, and entrepreneurship skills as well as inforeign languages. Vietnam has set thetargets that the vocational education sector will reach the level ofASEAN-4 countries of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines by 2030 and by 2045 reach the level of G20 countries./.
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Vocational training students at a technical school in HCM City. (Photo: VNA) 
