Nghe An strives to increase the rate of trained workers to 72% by the end of 2025

The province is tightening the program, increasing linkages with the market, considering vocational skills human resources as a new growth driver in digital transformation and integration.

Many targets exceed the plan

According to the report of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee, from January 25, 2022 to December 31, 2024, 48 vocational training institutions in Nghe An - including 9 colleges, 12 secondary schools, 2 vocational training centers and 25 institutions participating in vocational training - have enrolled 200 820 students, reaching 101.68% of the plan. Of these, 14,971 are college-level students, 29,106 are intermediate students and 156,743 are elementary school students or under three months.

The total number of trained workers in the province reached 70.1%, of which ethnic minority and mountainous areas reached 62.3%. On average, 81.9% of students have immediate jobs, with college and intermediate education alone at over 96%. Three student startup projects have attracted corporate capital.

The province and the Central Government have poured 438.76 billion VND and mobilized 22 billion VND from socialized sources - prioritizing investment in simulation equipment for 15 key occupations and digital laboratories. Vietnam - Korea Industrial College of Technology is the first unit to meet national high-quality standards, becoming a center for robot, CNC training and industrial maintenance for the North Central region.

In order to improve teaching standards, the province has sent 132 teachers to Korea, Germany, Australia, Japan, Singapore for training; at the same time, 2,427 cadres and lecturers have been trained domestically, 1.6 times the plan. A system of 122 new programs has been built, 91 self-assessment programs have passed the standards, 10 intermediate-colleges - inter-level programs, 84 online learning software and virtual reality have been included in teaching.

Business linkages continue to be a bright spot: More than 8,900 students are interns at factories, 29,600 graduates are recruited by FDI corporations and foreign enterprises, the most in the electronics, precision mechanics, and logistics groups.

The social security policy has been implemented promptly with 90.041 students receiving tuition exemptions, support for training and boarding costs with a budget of VND 1,028.527 billion, prioritizing ethnic minority students, poor households, people with disabilities, and discharged soldiers.

There are still bottlenecks that need to be resolved

Although many targets exceeded the plan, Nghe An still had 5 targets "not yet reached the finish line". New college admissions reached 94.8% because the psychology of university admission and career counseling has not yet achieved the expected results. The rate of high school graduates entering vocational schools is only 37.5%, reaching 89.29% of the target; secondary school graduates entering vocational training reach 37%. The number of vocational training institutions stopped at 83.7% of the plan, the new teaching staff was 2,127 people, 396 short of the required staff.

More importantly, the rate of workers with vocational certificates is 29.81%, much lower than the 40% set by industrial parks for the period 2026-2030.

The main reason is that high-quality professional facilities only meet 15 out of 70 occupations with high demand, there are not many lecturers with good knowledge of new technology, and the policy of attracting experts from businesses is not attractive. In class, the average practice time is only 55%, soft skills and Foreign languages are still thin; graduates lack the ability to work in an automated, multi-linguistic environment.

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