Leaders of TVET institutes attend a training workshop on greening held earlier this week in HCM City. (Photo: VNA)HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Technicalvocational education and training (TVET) institutes in Ho Chi Minh City plan totrain students in green-growth fields that promote economic sustainability.
At a workshop on “Greening TVET Institutes”held earlier this week in HCM City, Dang Minh Su, head of the VocationalEducation and Training Division at the city’s Department of Labour, Invalidsand Social Affairs, said that TVET institutes would play a key role insustainable development by training workers in green practices.
UNESCO defines greening as the pursuit ofknowledge and practices with the intention of becoming more environmentallyfriendly.
“Well-trained workers will be needed toapply environmentally friendly technologies in production,” Su said.
Technical vocational education and trainingis the key to achieve the goals of the National Green Growth Strategy by 2020,he added.
Su said the leaders of TVET schools shouldinclude green-growth subjects in their curricula.
Workshop speakers discussed the criteria,process and methods for sustainable development using a whole-institutionapproach to green their institutions.
Nguyen Thi Hang, rector of the College ofTechnology II in HCM City, said that to meet the demand of green growth, humanresources, including 80 per cent of graduates from TVET institutes, should betrained in green skills, which are defined by UNESCO as the “knowledge,abilities, values and attitudes needed to live in, develop and support asustainable and resource-efficient society”.
Christian Knuppert, a technical advisor atDeutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, said that TVETinstitutes should embark upon “a significant change process and enhancecooperation with the business sector to be a driver of green economic growth”.
“Change is never easy and requires goodstrategies to be successful,” he said.-VNS/VNA
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