Let students of vocational colleges get jobs after graduation

In addition to improving the quality of teaching and learning, in recent years, province-based vocational colleges have attached special importance to linking in order to create human resources for the local businesses and economic groups with such practical deeds as taking students to factories for practicing, ensuring jobs with the monthly salary of VND8 million- VND 15 million per person, creating conditions for them to study and work from their 3rd school year. In addition, these schools have opened many new training professions on cosmetology, bartending and baking, helping students independently establish their careers after graduation.

Being self-confident with chosen professions

After 2 years of studying bartending at Dong An College of High Technology, Nguyen Bao Duy is self-confident with the profession he has chosen. Duy confided: "Now I can mix dozens of drinks in accordance with my preferences. In this profession, once mastering recipes you have learned, you can freely create and combine fruits and ingredients to create drinks in accordance with your preferences. With my skills, I have now applied for a job at a large coffee shop in Ho Chi Minh city’s Thu Duc city. I go to school during the day and work at night. My income is quite high. I plan to open my own small coffee shop after graduation”.

Dong An High Technology College creates jobs for 90% of students after promoting links with many enterprises in the area

Nguyen Van Kiet, a student of the school’s Faculty of Mechanical Engineering shared: "At school, we spend about 70% of the time practicing on machines at mechanical workshops, along with many probation sessions on modern production lines of enterprises having the linkage with the school. Thanks to a lot of time practicing on machines, we have a very good grasp of the professions we have learned and are self-confident when entering factories after graduation."

At Vietnam - Singapore Vocational College, Le Tien Minh, a student of the Faculty of Industrial Electrical Engineering and his group of friends have constantly researched and practiced on the machinery system at the school's mechanical workshop, so they are quite self-confident after being trained. Minh said: "The school has just created conditions for us to take part in field trips to a number of enterprises in the province to know learn about how to operate machines, production lines and find electrical system errors on a few lines. We practiced quite well and did not take too much time to find errors on the devices. It is known that students in the previous training courses received support from the school to apply for jobs right after graduation. I also hope to have a stable job right after graduation."

In recent years, Dong An High Technology College as well as Vietnam - Singapore Vocational College have always guaranteed the annual enrollment at 1,300 - 1,500 students. Thanks to promoting links with enterprises, ensuring that students have stable jobs after graduation, these two schools have received the attention of many parents in the province.

Improving training quality, promoting links

Nguyen Huynh Bach Son Long, Vice-Principal of Dong An High Technology College said that more than 90% of teachers at the school have held master's and doctorate degrees, ensuring the quality of teaching and learning. Currently, the school has 9 faculties and 30 training occupations. Every year, the school has more than 1,000 graduates, about 85% - 90% of whom are introduced jobs within 6 months after graduation.

Identifying human resource training as an important factor towards a knowledge-based economy, in which training a skilled workforce with the ability to access advanced technological levels is of utmost importance. In fact, Dong An College of High Technology has invested and equipped 28 hi-tech mechanical processing machines with a total cost of over VND 150 billion to serve teaching, practice and scientific research at the High Technology Center.

Mr. Long added that up to now, the school has invested in modern machinery and equipment, imported from the US, Japan, Korea... with a total cost of over VND 1trillion. The school's vocational training is linked to large-scale enterprises, namely Intel Vietnam, On Semicon douctor, Masan group, Sabeco, Greystone, Mabuchi motor, CNC Tech. Currently, there are 19 workshops importing equipment from Germany and China for industrial electricity and industrial electronics; 13 practice workshops imported from the US, Japan, and Korea for electromechanical metal cutting. In the coming time, the school will accompany Lego Group in training human resources. This opens up great opportunities for the school's students as they have access to an international standard working environment, getting foreign scientific qualifications in the current era of rapidly developing digital technology.

Along with improving training quality, over the past 5 years, Vietnam - Singapore Vocational College also continuously expanded its links with many enterprises in the form of studying and working in the province. Tran Hung Phong, Principal of the school said: "With this program, students will be interviewed by enterprises as soon as they enter the school and enterprises pay all tuition fees. And then, they will get hired after 3 years of studying at the school. In the joint training program, the school will train students at enterprises ‘requirements and may change some of its existing training programs to suit enterprises’ production characteristics".

Reported by Quang Tam-Translated by Kim Tin