The government to cooperate with World Skills International

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ At its regular meeting on Saturday, the cabinet decided to join the World Skills International (WSI), an global organization best-known for its skills competition, jobs and careers event held in a member country every two years. The above decision has come forward to provide the demand for new methods to enhance professional training in a short time. With WSI, Mongolia will cooperate in certain activities that will follow Mongolian Skills 2013 competition organized by the Labor Ministry last September in order to implement WSI’s standards for skill evaluation and convenient employment. The proposal to establish cooperation with this organization was put forward by the Ministries and professional organizations of Mongolia, who had studied experiences during WSI’s most recent competition that took place last July at Leipzig Trade Fair. World Skills International (WSI) is a not-for-profit membership association open to agencies or bodies which have a responsibility for promoting vocational education and training in their respective countries/regions. It operates worldwide and is politically neutral. WSI provides a unique means of exchange and comparison of world-class competency standards in the industrial trades and service sectors of the global economy. The continued growth of WSI attests to the fact that traditional trade and craft skills along with the newer technology multi-skilled vocations make an essential contribution to the economic and social well being of peoples everywhere. As a free standing, the non-political organization provides a cost effective means for international government and industry cooperation in achieving higher standards and status for vocational education and training on a worldwide basis. Over its 60 year history, WSI (formerly known as the "Skill Olympics") has come to symbolize the pinnacle of excellence in vocational training. Every two years hundreds of young skilled people, accompanied by their teachers and trainers, gather together from around the world to compete before the public in the skills of their various trades and test themselves against demanding international standards. They represent the best of their peers drawn from regional and national skill competitions held currently in 67 countries/regions.