Professional Training: A National Emergency Plan Unveiled
20 January 2009
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King Mohammed VI presided over the presentation ceremony of the emergency plan in the field of professional training in Nador on Monday. This plan aims to create a training offer consistent with specific needs and skills requirements.
Several agreements were signed to activate this emergency plan in key areas, namely agriculture, hospitality, crafts, and industry.
Hospitality and Crafts
In a presentation to the King, the Minister of Employment and Professional Training, Jamal Rhmani, recalled, among other things, studies on supporting the hospitality sector by meeting its skills needs, regulating public and private professional training offers, and optimizing training durations.
In the hospitality industry, projections from 2008/2012, said Mr. Rhmani, reveal a need for approximately 62,000 professionals. Therefore, an action plan was adopted under the Human Resources, Hospitality contract, focusing on optimizing and expanding the training system, developing apprenticeships, training 67,000 graduates by 2012, and improving the quality of training and foreign language instruction.
Regarding the crafts sector, a major lever for social and economic development, a survey of 3,070 craft units identified 20 promising trades, 104,600 potential jobs, and 107,000 apprenticeship positions offered by craft units, the Minister said.
The 2008/2015 action plan for this sector, costing 451 million dirhams, will provide apprenticeship training for 60,000 young rural people in promising trades, placing approximately 51,000 graduates in the job market and creating five apprenticeship training centers (CFA), as well as expanding and upgrading other CFAs.
Agriculture, Industry, Education
Regarding the development of apprenticeships in the agricultural sector—the main employer, occupying 43.4% of the overall workforce—the action plan, with a budget of 340 million dirhams, will train 60,000 young rural people, placing about 51,000 graduates in the job market and creating six apprenticeship training centers (CFA) in agricultural areas with skill shortages.
Regarding the integrated development of the industrial sector, the automobile, aeronautics, electronics, offshoring, textile/leather, and agri-food sectors were targeted. A study on human resource training was conducted, focusing on three areas.
The first area focuses on developing the training system (270 million dirhams), the second on direct aid to companies for training (2.7 billion dirhams), and the third on supporting the integrated industrial platforms to be created. This industrial strategy should create approximately 200,000 jobs by 2015.
The study on creating professional licenses identified needs (290) and graduates in priority sectors (7,250). The action plan, the Minister continued, also focuses on organizing Professional Licenses (LP), starting in the 2008/2009 school year, in 25 of them, reaching 100 licenses with 2,500 new students by 2012.
Posted July 15, 2008
Aufaitmaroc.com
Several agreements were signed to activate this emergency plan in key areas, namely agriculture, hospitality, crafts, and industry.
Hospitality and Crafts
In a presentation to the King, the Minister of Employment and Professional Training, Jamal Rhmani, recalled, among other things, studies on supporting the hospitality sector by meeting its skills needs, regulating public and private professional training offers, and optimizing training durations.
In the hospitality industry, projections from 2008/2012, said Mr. Rhmani, reveal a need for approximately 62,000 professionals. Therefore, an action plan was adopted under the Human Resources, Hospitality contract, focusing on optimizing and expanding the training system, developing apprenticeships, training 67,000 graduates by 2012, and improving the quality of training and foreign language instruction.
Regarding the crafts sector, a major lever for social and economic development, a survey of 3,070 craft units identified 20 promising trades, 104,600 potential jobs, and 107,000 apprenticeship positions offered by craft units, the Minister said.
The 2008/2015 action plan for this sector, costing 451 million dirhams, will provide apprenticeship training for 60,000 young rural people in promising trades, placing approximately 51,000 graduates in the job market and creating five apprenticeship training centers (CFA), as well as expanding and upgrading other CFAs.
Agriculture, Industry, Education
Regarding the development of apprenticeships in the agricultural sector—the main employer, occupying 43.4% of the overall workforce—the action plan, with a budget of 340 million dirhams, will train 60,000 young rural people, placing about 51,000 graduates in the job market and creating six apprenticeship training centers (CFA) in agricultural areas with skill shortages.
Regarding the integrated development of the industrial sector, the automobile, aeronautics, electronics, offshoring, textile/leather, and agri-food sectors were targeted. A study on human resource training was conducted, focusing on three areas.
The first area focuses on developing the training system (270 million dirhams), the second on direct aid to companies for training (2.7 billion dirhams), and the third on supporting the integrated industrial platforms to be created. This industrial strategy should create approximately 200,000 jobs by 2015.
The study on creating professional licenses identified needs (290) and graduates in priority sectors (7,250). The action plan, the Minister continued, also focuses on organizing Professional Licenses (LP), starting in the 2008/2009 school year, in 25 of them, reaching 100 licenses with 2,500 new students by 2012.
Posted July 15, 2008
Aufaitmaroc.com
