Nature of the Training/Retraining Programme
The training/retraining programme is focused on skills upgrading, work ethics, productivity and attitudinal change. It is focused on boosting workers prospects for re-entry into the labour market at higher levels of productivity or performance. It emphasizes vocational, and professional training and retraining. While addressing current employability challenges, a long-term perspective in the design of training modules ensures responsiveness to future skills and labour market needs.
Beneficiary who enrol in the programme have two options as follows:
- The first option is for workers who have the requirement and capacity to pursue existing academic programmes/courses available in the various training institutions. These existing programmes/courses are adjusted with add-ons that address the issues of work ethics, productivity and attitudinal change. These programmes are of longer durations usually between 6 and 12 months.
- The second option is the core competency-based training programmes primarily for workers who do not have the capacity nor the time to pursue long duration academic programmes/courses. By their nature, the competency-based courses are of shorter duration and have greater practical components. The courses range from one week to one month.