Training set to grow more IT technicians

Source: Xinhua  |   2008-8-8  |     NEWSPAPER EDITION

CHINA'S Ministry of Education plans to set up 30 information technology training bases nationwide to meet the increasing demand for technicians.

The effort aims to train more IT specialists to meet the huge growth in a labor market hungry for technicians, Yu Guangming, deputy director of the ministry's Education Management Information Center, said yesterday.

The bases, or vocational schools, will feature programs aimed at helping would-be job seekers better incorporate knowledge with practical skills, he said.

The training bases, which will be jointly sponsored by the center and local institutions of higher learning, will also provide advanced courses for technicians who have passed an aptitude test by the school, he noted.

The advanced courses include workplace role play, case analysis and job-hunting consultation classes.

The bases will also seek more partnerships with enterprises to give students more internship opportunities, Yu said, adding that they would help enterprises train people based on their job requirements.

According to an earlier survey conducted by Manpower Inc, a global employment service, technicians topped the Chinese labor market's job demand list in the first half of 2008.

About 15 percent of 3,900 companies surveyed had difficulty in hiring staff, including technicians.