Dao Thi Chung, Director of the Student Enrolment and Job Introduction Centre at the Mechatronics and Water Resources College (MWC), stated that the number of applications for vocational schools has been rising in recent years due to growing worker shortages, adding that each year the college recruits more than 1,000 students, most of whom are able to find suitable jobs after graduation.

According to the Hung Yen Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, the province currently has 26 vocational schools, which are providing training in industry, agriculture, commerce and services for 45,000 people each year. Some key trades offered at vocational schools include industrial electricity, industrial electronics, garment, automobile, animal husbandry and veterinary medicine.

Thanks to efforts to enhance their training quality and build appropriate programmes, vocational education facilities in Hung Yen have attracted a growing number of enrolments. From 2021 to May 2023, the province recruited over 123,000 people, with the number of students graduating during the 2021-2022 period reaching nearly 93,800. The quality and efficiency of vocational training has seen marked improvement, with the rate of students finding jobs after graduation growing over the years to about 90%.

Cooperation between vocational training schools and continuing education centres has been particularly effective as students can acquire both academic knowledge and vocational skills. As a result, from 2021 to May 2023, Hung Yen Province had created jobs for over 62,700 people and sent over 6,500 workers abroad.

Currently Hung Yen Province is stepping up its industrialisation and modernisation endeavour. So far, the province has received 2,157 domestic and foreign projects, worth 317 trillion VND and 6.7 billion USD respectively.

To meet the needs for skilled workers, in 2024 Hung Yen is expected to adopt a resolution on vocational training to achieve the goals and criteria for vocation training set out by the Secretariat and the provincial Party Committee.

Specifically, from now until 2026, Hung Yen will introduce a policy on training high-quality human resources; provide support for local residents wishing to apply for vocational schools in the province; provide vocational training support for people who have completed military duty, workers in rural areas, people with disabilities, people in poor households, and vulnerable people; and introduce a policy on encouraging enterprises to engage in vocational training.

The province will also continue restructuring and completing its network of vocational education facilities, allocate capital to modernise vocational training equipment and upgrade infrastructure for the Employment Service Centre, focus on vocational facilities with advanced and future skills, and increase cooperation with prestigious foreign vocational facilities, especially in the sectors aligned with province’s economic development orientations./. NDO