The Singapore Government will continue to help Vietnam train human resources to improve the country’s manpower quality in the context of global integration, said a Singaporean official.
“The government has assigned Singaporean-based RPT to cooperate with universities in Vietnam to send local students to Singapore for training,” the Ha Noi Moi newspaper reported June 29, citing Eric Trotter from RPT. In fact, Vietnamese students are good at theory but bad at practices, leading to low competitiveness of the national labor workforce, he admitted, noting that my companies, especially foreign-invested ones in Vietnam have had to retrain workers after recruitments.
“We are recruiting students in Malaysia, China and the Philippines to retrain them. We will create the opportunity for Vietnamese ones,” he noted.
Vietnam will need VND51.8 trillion ($2.71 billion) to carry out a project to improve the quality of the national manpower in the 2011-2020 period.
Currently, the country has 47 million people of working age. It aims to raise its trained manpower rate to 30% in 2010 from 28% in 2009.
Annually, vocational training schools train more than 1.5 million workers. The number, however, has not met the social demand.
