• The call to fill the gap between training programs and the needs in the labor market.

    02/05/2017

    In the extended meeting of the training sector.

     

              The extended Training Sector Meeting organized by Asharqia Chamber Training Committee on Monday (May 1, 2017) recommended finding specialized bodies to analyze and evaluate the nature of jobs required to fill the gap between training programs and the actual need for the labor market.

    The Chairman of the training committee in Chamber, Dr. Abdulrahman Al Rabiah said that the training sector at present needs to be improved in all respects, so that this will be reflected positively to the owner of the service and the beneficiary.

    In the first atopic, Vicar of the Committee Saeed Al Hababi said that there is a big gap between the training programs presented In the labor market and the actual needs, there is no correlation between the skills offered and the basic need of institutions, which requires a total analysis of the labor market.

    Al Hababi added that the aim of the training is mostly to fill the shortage of skills, reducing costs and increasing employees moral spirit. Therefore, training does not begin before the required training needs are identified, starting with a number of methods: job analysis, organizational analysis, labor market recently, earlier the factory needed a strong man, but at the present it requires additional skills other than physical power.

    In this regard, the participants agreed on the need to enhance the link between companies and training institutes to identify the needs and then putting the right individual in the right place, stressing that the training should be professionally accordance with training or academic education, training begins with the individual from the early years of an individual educational life.

    The second topic (keeping up with the regulations of the General Organization for professional and Technical Education with electronic platforms), member of the Committee Abdul Ghani Al Rumaih said that the electronic platforms are accessible to all, and through which many people get certificates and qualifications of science, we need to update our systems and follow the developments in the international platforms.
    The third topic (the importance of the development of private training institutes), member of the committee Muhammed Al Jahouri stressed the need to improve training curricula, raise the level of trainees, and improve training methods and equipment, as well as finding a mechanism to classify institutes and training centers. In addition to the need to include training courses in the field work.

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