YEMEN TO PARTAKE IN ARAB FORUM ON TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING

SANA'A, Jan.15 (Saba) - Yemen is to take part in the Arab Forum on Technical and Vocational Training and Labor Market Needs to be held next Saturday in Saudi Arabia.

Minister of Technical Education and Vocational Training Ibrahim Hajri told Saba that the three-day forum would deal with many important issues relating to the linking bases between the technical education outputs and the labor market needs, in addition to the social impacts of the global economic crisis on the Arab region and the role of the technical and vocational institutions in reducing its impacts.

He noted it will also focus on the Arab standard classification of occupations, the joint development of professional standards, the Arab strategy for education and technical and vocational training, and the Arab initiatives to support the technical and vocational training and increase employability and encourage self-employment.

For her part, Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Amat al-Razaq Humad indicated that the forum would discuss the role of private sector in supporting the technical and vocational training institutions in terms of funding and operating as well as participation in planning.

The forum will also discuss a project to establish an Arab association for vocational and technical training and selection of Arab centers for training trainers of technical and professional areas, Humad explained.

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