Thorng Samon News Today

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training is studying the needs of the labour market, in order to prepare to provide free vocational and technical training to an estimated 1.5 million impoverished adolescents who cannot afford to go to university. The plan will be implemented early next year.

Cambodia will organise the 6th National Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Day in mid-June, under the theme “TVET provides skills and decent jobs” in line with the government’s stated goal of ensuring that every citizen has at least one life skill.

The General Department of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) reported that as of mid-February, roughly 20,000 people had enrolled for TVET programmes nationwide, while the target for all of 2023 is around 60,000.

When Covid-19 first began to appear in news reports in 2019, few people could have predicted the long term impacts it would have, or the reality of a global health crisis.

A survey found that trainees of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) at levels 1-4 held jobs as senior technicians (over 45 per cent) and managers (over 17 per cent), while 19 per cent of the trainees have ended up going into a line of work that was irrelevant to the skills they were trained in.