Vocational skills: EU to help train 12,000 people

LAHORE: Technology Upgradation and Skill Development Company (TUSDEC) has signed a contract with the European Union to train 12,000 men and women from vulnerable communities of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Federally Administered Tribal Areas. TUSDEC CEO Anwar Ali Pervez announced this and said the project amounted to 3.8 million euros. He said the TUSDEC would implement a four-year programme seeking sustainable Technical Vocational Education and Training sector reforms in the tribal regions. He said the globalisation had spurred a tough competition in the job markets, disparaging the potential for unskilled human resource of Pakistan. He said that as a premier knowledge management company, the TUSDEC was determined to contribute to developing certified skilled workforce of the country by reducing the hindrances prevailing in the dissemination of market-oriented vocational trainings.  According to another official statement, the programme will be headquartered at Peshawar where a facilitation unit would be set up. The candidates will be extended full support to pin down their employment prospects. Affirmed as one of the most cardinal stakeholders of the project, the private sector will be engaged in planning and governance structure.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 6^th, 2012.