AMMAN — The
Ministry of Labor is working to develop,
rehabilitate and modernize the infrastructure for vocational and technical
training in Jordan, according to Acting Director General of the Vocational
Training Corporation Omar Quteishat.
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Quteishat told
Jordan
News that 36 vocational training sites and more than 348 workshops were
built in the 1980s and 90s, and they need development and rehabilitation, “but
this is done gradually and according to the budget available for that, and also
according to the amount of funding, especially in light of the difficult
economic conditions we are going through”.
He also said that
“we have provided the operators with advanced devices, such as 3D printers and
hybrid equipment, and in addition, we are working on preparing newer equipment
and on developing programs and curricula, as well as on raising the efficiency
of trainers.”
According to
Quteishat, there is a specific work plan, for 5-7 years, for the development of
the vocational training institutions, which includes improving the quality of
training outputs so that it can keep pace with technological development and at
the same time be in line with the requirements of the labor market.
“This will be in
partnership with the
private sector, and, in this regard, we met last week with
representatives of the tourism and hotel sector, and we are in constant
communication with other sectors,” he said.
Mohammad Bakeer,
head of a private vocational and technical training institution, told
Jordan
News that one of the prominent problems he suffers from is the slowness of
governmental procedures, which, “unfortunately, in Jordan are still
bureaucratic.”
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Bakeer added: “I
have been trying to issue a new permit since my old one expired, but it is
taking me too much time. Each time I have a
government transaction it takes me
too much time for it to be done.”
This delays the
process of training, he said, as “I am not allowed to give students new
training courses if I have not issued a new permit yet”.
He also said that
the defense orders contributed to decreasing the number of trainees.
“I am only allowed
to train 15 trainees in each class and this deprives the possibility of being
trained and of getting an appropriate
job opportunity, too.”
He urged the
Ministry of Labor to follow up with the institute and to ease the restrictions
“as we believe that we contribute to offering a great number of trainees an
excellent number of job opportunities and that is needed in light of the
increasing rates of unemployment and poverty.”
On Saturday,
Minister of Labor
Nayef Istitieh stressed the importance of developing,
rehabilitating and modernizing the infrastructure for vocational and technical
training in Jordan, noting that the main objective of the national economic
workshop at the Royal Hashemite Court is to enable economic growth.
Istitieh told local
media outlets that the main objective of the workshop is to seize opportunities
that will create and accelerate economic growth in the future, which will lead
to the creation of job opportunities for Jordanian youth.
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