Okaz/Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — Minister of Human Assets and Social Growth and Chairman of the Board of Administrators of the Human Assets Growth Fund (HADAF) Eng. Ahmed Al-Rajhi and Minister of Training Yousef Al-Benyan collectively inaugurated on Sunday the vocational steerage and counseling initiative in Saudi colleges. The ceremony was held within the presence of various companions representing numerous sectors.
The initiative, which is supervised HADAF in partnership and integration with schooling departments in numerous areas and governorates throughout the Kingdom, is aimed toward aligning academic outcomes with labor market necessities and allow female and male college students to study present and future abilities and necessities which might be important for the employment market.
HADAF’s Director Normal Turki Aljawini stated that the Fund, together with its companions, aspires to strengthen the idea of vocational steerage and activate it in private and non-private colleges, by means of a bunch of certified vocational counselors to align academic outcomes with the necessities of the labor market, in addition to to allow female and male college students to study present and future abilities and necessities for the labor market. “The vocational steerage and counseling is a serious requirement within the labor market, and this initiative comes after the launch of the ‘Vocational Steering in Universities’ initiative in cooperation with 67 universities, schools and institutes throughout the Kingdom in August final yr,” he stated.
Aljawini stated vocational steerage companies have been rendered to greater than 72,000 female and male college students on the college stage. Referring to the optimistic final result of the vocational steerage and counseling program in integration with all companions, he stated that the variety of beneficiaries of this system in the course of the previous eight months reached a couple of million female and male beneficiaries with the speed of satisfaction exceeding 91 p.c.
In keeping with the statistics of the primary half of the present yr, the variety of guests to the Subul platform reached about 600,000 guests, whereas the variety of beneficiaries of distant skilled steerage periods reached about 17,000 female and male beneficiaries, and 103 female and male skilled guides have been certified. Furthermore, round 2,000 specialised {and professional} workshops have been performed with the general goal of overcoming challenges within the required specializations.
For his half, Dr. Hassan Kharmi, deputy minister of schooling for basic schooling, praised the strategic partnership between the ministry of schooling, HADAF and numerous sectors on this initiative, noting that vocational steerage is a complete improvement program designed to assist college students to take resolution with regard to most applicable academic {and professional} decisions and carry them out in order to assist them form their future and decide their skilled vacation spot earlier than selecting their applicable educational path.
“The vocational steerage and counseling program ready by the ministry works to develop the scholar’s competencies in realizing themselves and their potentials, academic and vocational exploration, in addition to profession planning for the long run in accordance with what was included within the Saudi Imaginative and prescient applications by means of the human capabilities improvement and High quality of Life applications,” he stated whereas noting that vocational steerage and counseling applications for college students assist in acquiring the data and abilities, in addition to the required experiences so as to establish choices, discover options, and achieve society. “These applications higher put together college students for the long run office,” he added.