The national target program on vocational education, employment and workplace safety for the 2016-2020 period has been recently approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc with an investment of more than VND 14 trillion (USD 617 million).

It includes three projects - Innovating and improving vocational education quality; Developing labor and employment markets; and Enhancing workplace safety and hygiene.

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The overall objectives of the program are to assist the development of vocational education; foster the growth of the labor market; improve effectiveness in connecting workforce supply and demand; and create jobs and promote manpower export and workplace safety and hygiene.

It will also enhance sustainable employment and increase productivity by improving working conditions and wages and preventing work-related accidents.

The program targets to provide facilities and equipment for about 30 special schools qualified for offering maritime professional training and training for ethnic minority people or people with disabilities. Training for around 100 key professionals will be developed according to a decision issued by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.

About 8,800 laborers will be provided courses in languages and vocational skills with an aim of sending 6,200 of them abroad as contract guest workers.

The program will also offer consultations on employment policies and vocational education for visitors to career service centers across the country.

Source: VNA