Saudi provides vocational training for 114,000

JEDDAH: Around 114,000 Saudis had been undergoing Technical and Vocational Training in the Kingdom during last year and most of these trainings were given by the private institutes. The data was provided by Rashid bin Muhammad Al-Zahrani, the chairman, Technical and Vocational Training Council in Makkah Province.

Rashid bin Muhammad Al-Zahrani was addressing the conference of the private training institutes for the year 2012, which was held Sunday at the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

According to the date, the training provided to the Saudi men and women covered about 256 specialties including computer, electricity, electronics, car mechanics, wielding, engineering, management, law, travel and tourism, hotel sciences, safety and fire-fighting, geology, roads, oil and gas, plastics, media, fine arts, nutrition, security guarding, diving and fishing. All these courses were conducted with the idea of turning Saudi youths into more employable.

Almost 936 private training institutions were behind this vast training mission and the Government is hoping that more and more young Saudi men and women would be joining the institutions in the next three years. He said there are high institutes that grant diplomas and hold training and self-development programs, training centers that only provide development training, and technical institutes that train secondary school graduates.

The Technical and Vocational training market in the Kingdom are flourishing due to the aggressive Saudisation plan of the Government.

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