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Minister highlights TVET as path to higher education
Minister of Labour and Vocational Training Heng Sour stated that technical and vocational education training (TVET) serves as a bridge for young people to develop simple skills which can be combined and form a foundation for further studies in college. ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-highlights-tvet-as-path-to-higher-education
Cambodia receives $100 mn ADB loan for skills development
FacebookTwitterEmailShareThe ADB has approved a $100 million loan to enhance Cambodia’s labour force by addressing skills gaps through reforms in TVET. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501337397/cambodia-receives-100-mn-adb-loan-for-skills-development/
MLVT stresses need for technical and professional skills
Minister of Labor and Vocational Training, Ith Sam Heng, has called on communities, families, students, youth, vulnerable youth and the public to pay attention and adopt technical skills to enable them to find better job opportunities and contribute to the development of the national economy. ...
Ponlue Pok
https://kiripost.com/stories/mlvt-stresses-need-for-technical-and-professional-skills
World Bank to support Cambodia’s skills initiative
Cambodia will likely start implementing a massive reskilling and upskilling project with the support of the World Bank in 2024 for which the bank has proposed an allocation of $40 million. A number of training institutions (TIs) and job centres (JCs) will be set up ...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501305175/world-bank-to-support-cambodias-skills-initiative/
Free vocational training for 1.5 mil poor students
Prime Minister Hun Sen has said that the government will provide vocational training to 1.5 million poor youth as part of its policy for the upcoming seventh mandate. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501243753/free-vocational-training-for-1-5-mil-poor-students/
NEA sponsors job fair with 600 new openings
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. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nea-sponsors-job-fair-600-new-openings
Disadvantaged youth to benefit from government’s initiative
The government has announced a new project to provide free technical and vocational training to about 1.5 million poor students a year. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501224581/disadvantaged-youth-to-benefit-from-governments-initiative/
TVET Day boosts human resources with skills development
TVET Day will become a new opportunity for Cambodia to build up human resources with knowledge, skills, morality and high productivity which will be a potential to attract both domestic and foreign investors, especially large manufacturers to invest in Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501095407/tvet-day-boosts-human-resources-with-skills-development/
Cambodia Asks ADB to Continue Supporting TVET
Cambodia has asked the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to continue its support to further boost the country’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50952914/cambodia-asks-adb-to-continue-supporting-tvet/
Cambodia must recognise urgency of developing skilled workforce
The structural economic issues facing the Kingdom will need greater institutional collaboration, according to Vongsey Vissoth, Permanent Secretary of State at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, who sees a lack of economic diversification and competitiveness as key issues to overcome. ...
Gerald Flynn
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50658956/cambodia-must-recognise-urgency-of-developing-skilled-workforce/
Master plan for TVET programmes prepared
Minister of Labour and Vocational Training Ith Sam Heng said a master plan was being established for Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programmes to further human resource development in the face of a shortage of technical skills in the workforce. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/master-plan-tvet-programmes-prepared
PM: Workers must train for Industry 4.0
Prime Minister Hun Sen has urged the Kingdom’s workforce to seek more technical training and strengthen their skills if they are to avoid job losses resulting from the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Hun Sen said the fourth industrial revolution is like a double-edged sword that will ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-workers-must-train-industry-40
Dropouts to get online education scheme
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport is working in conjunction with Unesco and the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (MLVT) to launch an internet-based education programme for Cambodian youths in grades seven to nine who have dropped out of school. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dropouts-get-online-education-scheme
