Improving the quality and effectiveness of vocational training for ethnic minority workers

Vocational training for rural workers, especially ethnic minority workers, is considered an important solution in poverty reduction. Over the years, this activity has always been focused on by Yen Lap district, contributing to gradually improving and enhancing people's lives.

After attending the vocational training course, Mr. Cuong applied it in growing and harvesting cinnamon.

Previously, the family life of Phung Van Cuong, a Dao ethnic, in Sat area, Trung Son commune, faced many difficulties. He had no job, so he had to do whatever people hired him to do, and his low income was not enough to cover expenses and living expenses. With the desire to have a stable career, Cuong registered for two elementary classes in Veterinary Medicine and Cultivation at the district's Vocational Education - Continuing Education Center. Cuong shared: "Previously, I mainly worked for hire to make a living. Raising livestock and cultivating crops also followed the traditional ways left by my ancestors. Raising pigs, buffaloes, and cows in the forest. Growing cinnamon trees naturally without care... After attending the courses, I returned to apply the knowledge I had learned in my family's production and helped people with the knowledge I had learned."

Like Mr. Phung Van Cuong, many ethnic minority families in the area have changed their lives in a positive direction thanks to vocational training, gradually escaping poverty and having a prosperous life. This is proof of the importance of vocational training. Over the years, thousands of workers in the district, especially ethnic minority workers, have increasingly understood the necessity and significance of vocational training to voluntarily learn jobs suitable to their abilities, conditions, and qualifications...

Comrade Dinh Hai Nam - Vice Chairman of Yen Lap District People's Committee said: "Ethnic minority workers have outstanding advantages such as good health, honesty, dexterity, diligence. If they have skills, are well managed and educated, ethnic minority workers can achieve quite high labor productivity... However, due to the uneven intellectual level, many ethnic minority workers are slow to absorb scientific and technical advances, are not proactive in learning; lack awareness of training, low labor discipline, and still have the mindset of waiting for support from the State..."

After applying the knowledge he has learned in taking care of livestock, Mr. Cuong has improved his family's economic efficiency.

Grasping the actual situation of the strengths and weaknesses of ethnic minority workers, in recent years, implementing the policies and guidelines on vocational training of the Party and the State, together with the provincial levels and sectors, Yen Lap district has focused on implementing vocational training solutions for ethnic minorities; including strengthening propaganda and vocational education orientation through mass media about the role and significance of occupations in life, about the policies and guidelines on vocational training of the Party and the State...

In addition, the district's Vocational Education and Continuing Education Center coordinates with departments, branches, organizations, and People's Committees of communes and towns to organize vocational training and employment festivals to promote, advise on vocational training, and recruit students to open vocational training classes according to the orientation and development planning of the locality. Vocational training for ethnic minorities is carried out using the "hands-on" method, bringing high efficiency. The policy of supporting tuition fees, food, transportation, materials, and learning tools for ethnic minorities when learning a trade has really encouraged more and more workers to register for vocational training.

Accordingly, in 2023, the whole district opened dozens of vocational training classes for rural workers and ethnic minority areas with thousands of students studying agricultural and non-agricultural occupations... In addition to vocational training for workers, the district also cooperates with businesses to recruit, train and recruit workers, and find jobs for workers after vocational training... Thanks to that, most ethnic minority workers after vocational training participate in the labor market or create jobs for themselves with the trained profession.

Phuong Uyen

Source: https://baophutho.vn/nang-cao-chat-luong-hieu-qua-dao-tao-nghe-cho-lao-dong-nguoi-dan-toc-thieu-so-217885.htm