Ninh Thuan province has seen a gradual improvement in the quality of its human resources over recent years, thanks to the implementation of effective strategies. However, the current level still falls short of meeting the province’s developmental needs. Consequently, the objective of cultivating a workforce of adequate size and quality, particularly high-caliber personnel for key economic sectors, remains a primary focus for the province. This is in line with the province’s commitment to achieving swift and sustainable socioeconomic development, while leveraging and enhancing local advantages.
“Strengthening the Operational Capacity of the Renewable Energy Mechanism” training program is jointly organized by the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs and the VCCI Ho Chi Minh Branch
Diversifying professions and training fields
Ninh Thuan province’s 13 vocational schools, with 413 teachers, train 9,000 students annually. They’ve improved teaching quality and facilities, expanded training to meet market needs, increased practical lessons, and strengthened business cooperation for student employment. This has enhanced human resource quality to meet the high demands of local and South-Central Coast labor markets.
In 2023, vocational schools in Ninh Thuan enrolled 10,994 students, increasing the trained worker ratio to 66.82%, with 29.28% certified. Training fields are diversified based on local industry, tourism, and agriculture needs. Ninh Thuan Vocational College offers five key national and regional training majors.
Mr. Tran Duc Long, Deputy Director of the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, said: Ninh Thuan has a workforce of 330,000 people active in economic sectors, accounting for 56.4% of the population. Currently, the province's workforce is gradually developing in both quantity and quality to better meet recruitment requirements for technical expertise, discipline and working style from businesses and the labor market. Although the rate of trained workers has tended to increase over the years, the quality of vocationally trained workers is still yet to come up with the province's development requirements, especially for key economic sectors.
Continued improvement of human resource quality
Ninh Thuan Provincial Planning for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2050, states five breakthrough industry clusters (Energy and renewable energy; high-class tourism; processing and manufacturing industry; high-tech agriculture; and construction and real estate business), two new growth drivers (maritime economy and urban economy) and three disruptive breakthroughs (improving competitiveness; upgrading infrastructure; and applying advanced technology to production, innovation, digital transformation).
In the long term, to meet human resource requirements, the Ninh Thuan Provincial People's Committee launched the "Improving the quality of human resources in key economic sectors to 2025, with a vision to year 2030” project, aiming to develop the province's human resources at a reasonable scale and structure, especially high-quality human resources, for key economic sectors like clean energy, high-class tourism, high-tech agriculture associated with processing industry and urban economy. It will focus on developing digital transformation and electronic trading platforms to brace up rapid and sustainable socioeconomic development.
Currently, the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Ninh Thuan province has translated proposed orientations and goals into action programs, projects and plans to launch them in the earliest time, said Deputy Director Long. The core is propagating and raising awareness and responsibility of all levels, sectors and the entire society about the role and importance of developing and improving the quality of human resources; reforming state administration of training, fostering, employing, evaluating and developing human resources; build policy mechanisms to attract human resources, especially high-quality workers; construct a labor market information system initiated by the ordering mechanism of businesses, training support and development orientation of human resources.
Besides, the department will further improve policy mechanisms to strengthen vocational education, enhance the capacity, effectiveness and efficiency of State administration of vocational education; intensify inspection, examination, supervision and handling of violations in vocational education. The department will develop facilities and expand training scale, plan to build Ninh Thuan Vocational College into a high-class vocational school by 2025, upgrade the Medical Intermediate School to the Medical College, and develop vocational schools to best meet vocational training needs of society.
Simultaneously, the department is committed to robustly implementing a tripartite cooperation mechanism involving the government, educational institutions, and businesses. This approach is predicated on the harmonization of interests and responsibilities among all stakeholders. It aims to forge a close connection between vocational education and the recruitment needs of enterprises and the labor market, with a particular emphasis on the demand for high-quality labor training. This strategy is designed to fulfill the prerequisites of industrialization, modernization, and international integration.
By Bui Lien, Vietnam Business Forum
Vietnamese
October 2024
Hanoi