OFPPT: 200,000 young people to be trained in four years!
12 April 2011
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To support priority sectors, the office will train more than 200,000 young people in the next four years. 4 new training centers for offshoring, two institutes for olive growing and agri-food.
The Office of Vocational Training and Labor Promotion (OFPPT) wants to support the government's employment policy by meeting the needs of priority sectors within the framework of the National Pact for Industrial Emergence. These are the textile and leather, agri-food, automotive, offshoring, aeronautics and electronics sectors, whose medium-term employment needs have been identified by a study by the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies. We could add the tourism sector, whose human resource needs are also known, and the transport and logistics sector, which will be increasingly in demand in the coming years. In this perspective, a program contract between the government and the office should be signed soon; in any case, a version of this contract is already ready and should be submitted for the appreciation of all. In other words, the OFPPT's mission is no longer limited to providing training to young people and letting them try their luck on the job market, but is increasingly seeking to meet the demands of this market, either in consultation with professionals and supervising administrations, or by anticipating this demand by keeping an eye on investment and structuring projects in different regions of the country.
Sectoral agreements should also be signed with professional associations, like the agreement signed on March 9 with the Moroccan Association of Textile and Clothing Industries (Amith) to train some 30,000 profiles by 2015, and around 20,000 young people who should be integrated into the sector before the end of 2011.
To this end, the office has around twenty establishments entirely dedicated to this sector, and textile sectors are found in 150 other establishments of the office, totaling nearly 19,000 educational places in 2010/2011 in addition to a skills development center. The trainees for this activity have seen significant growth over the last ten years, rising from 8,820 for the 2002/2003 school year to 18,935 in 2010/2011, with an average annual rate of around 14,000 young people trained between 2003/2004 and 2006/2007, and around 19,000 between 2007/2008 and 2010/2011. Over the same period, training for the leather sector has put some 1,000 graduates on the market per year on average.
Following the same logic, the needs expressed by the offshoring sector would be 70,000 jobs by 2015, including 30,000 operators for call centers and 23,000 technicians, 80% of whom should be trained by the office. It must be said that offshoring is a new source of jobs, knowing that before 2006/2007 there were no specific training courses for this activity at the office. But since then, the training rate has accelerated to reach 1,330 people in 2007/2008, nearly 6,000 in 2008/2009 and around 10,000 in 2010/2011. The OFPPT plans to create, by 2015, 4 new establishments dedicated to offshoring in Rabat, Fes, Tetouan and Oujda in addition to the one already operational in Casablanca. Regarding the automotive sector, the sector's needs amount to 52,000 jobs, including 40,000 operators and 12,000 technicians. The number of trainees has also seen an upward curve over the past 10 years, rising from 7,292 graduates trained in 2002/2003 to 20,139 planned for the current year. Here again, new sectors will be created taking into account the national strategy for automobile construction.
As for agri-food, the needs expressed within the framework of the Green Morocco Plan are 3,000 jobs per year. The office having trained nearly 800 trainees in 2010 in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity and having only one specialized establishment opened in 2004. For the coming years, it proposes to support the networks of agro-poles in the regions of the Oriental, Souss, Gharb and Tadla with the creation of an institute dedicated to olive-growing professions in Kelaat Sraghna, a second specializing in the agri-food industry in Meknes and two training centers in Bouknadel and Figuig.
The electronics sector is not to be outdone and should absorb 9,000 jobs by 2015, including 7,000 technicians and operators. The OFPPT is training more and more young people for this sector. In 2002/2003, there were 1,787 graduates and today there are 13,465. By 2015, the creation of a vocational training school in Casablanca dedicated to microelectronics sectors is planned, as well as a skills development center.
Another sector is the aeronautical industry where 70% of employees are graduates of the office, which is currently training 8,300 trainees in 2010/2011 who can work in the professions of this sector. Currently, the office has 5 schools in Casablanca, and one in Tangier, but it is planned to create, from 2012, an establishment specializing in aeronautical professions and airport logistics to train 1,000 young people per year. This establishment is created in partnership with RAM, ONDA and other organizations.
Published on April 10, 2011
Posted online on April 10, 2011
Lavieeco.com
The Office of Vocational Training and Labor Promotion (OFPPT) wants to support the government's employment policy by meeting the needs of priority sectors within the framework of the National Pact for Industrial Emergence. These are the textile and leather, agri-food, automotive, offshoring, aeronautics and electronics sectors, whose medium-term employment needs have been identified by a study by the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies. We could add the tourism sector, whose human resource needs are also known, and the transport and logistics sector, which will be increasingly in demand in the coming years. In this perspective, a program contract between the government and the office should be signed soon; in any case, a version of this contract is already ready and should be submitted for the appreciation of all. In other words, the OFPPT's mission is no longer limited to providing training to young people and letting them try their luck on the job market, but is increasingly seeking to meet the demands of this market, either in consultation with professionals and supervising administrations, or by anticipating this demand by keeping an eye on investment and structuring projects in different regions of the country.
Sectoral agreements should also be signed with professional associations, like the agreement signed on March 9 with the Moroccan Association of Textile and Clothing Industries (Amith) to train some 30,000 profiles by 2015, and around 20,000 young people who should be integrated into the sector before the end of 2011.
To this end, the office has around twenty establishments entirely dedicated to this sector, and textile sectors are found in 150 other establishments of the office, totaling nearly 19,000 educational places in 2010/2011 in addition to a skills development center. The trainees for this activity have seen significant growth over the last ten years, rising from 8,820 for the 2002/2003 school year to 18,935 in 2010/2011, with an average annual rate of around 14,000 young people trained between 2003/2004 and 2006/2007, and around 19,000 between 2007/2008 and 2010/2011. Over the same period, training for the leather sector has put some 1,000 graduates on the market per year on average.
Following the same logic, the needs expressed by the offshoring sector would be 70,000 jobs by 2015, including 30,000 operators for call centers and 23,000 technicians, 80% of whom should be trained by the office. It must be said that offshoring is a new source of jobs, knowing that before 2006/2007 there were no specific training courses for this activity at the office. But since then, the training rate has accelerated to reach 1,330 people in 2007/2008, nearly 6,000 in 2008/2009 and around 10,000 in 2010/2011. The OFPPT plans to create, by 2015, 4 new establishments dedicated to offshoring in Rabat, Fes, Tetouan and Oujda in addition to the one already operational in Casablanca. Regarding the automotive sector, the sector's needs amount to 52,000 jobs, including 40,000 operators and 12,000 technicians. The number of trainees has also seen an upward curve over the past 10 years, rising from 7,292 graduates trained in 2002/2003 to 20,139 planned for the current year. Here again, new sectors will be created taking into account the national strategy for automobile construction.
As for agri-food, the needs expressed within the framework of the Green Morocco Plan are 3,000 jobs per year. The office having trained nearly 800 trainees in 2010 in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity and having only one specialized establishment opened in 2004. For the coming years, it proposes to support the networks of agro-poles in the regions of the Oriental, Souss, Gharb and Tadla with the creation of an institute dedicated to olive-growing professions in Kelaat Sraghna, a second specializing in the agri-food industry in Meknes and two training centers in Bouknadel and Figuig.
The electronics sector is not to be outdone and should absorb 9,000 jobs by 2015, including 7,000 technicians and operators. The OFPPT is training more and more young people for this sector. In 2002/2003, there were 1,787 graduates and today there are 13,465. By 2015, the creation of a vocational training school in Casablanca dedicated to microelectronics sectors is planned, as well as a skills development center.
Another sector is the aeronautical industry where 70% of employees are graduates of the office, which is currently training 8,300 trainees in 2010/2011 who can work in the professions of this sector. Currently, the office has 5 schools in Casablanca, and one in Tangier, but it is planned to create, from 2012, an establishment specializing in aeronautical professions and airport logistics to train 1,000 young people per year. This establishment is created in partnership with RAM, ONDA and other organizations.
Published on April 10, 2011
Posted online on April 10, 2011
Lavieeco.com
