Francis Tim Mbom
17 March 2008
The Provincial Delegate of the Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training for the Southwest, Valentine Foretia, has disclosed that three vocational training would be constructed in the country at the cost of FCFA 16.5 billion.
Foretia broke the news to public service and private establishment heads in Fako Division who met at the Limbe Council Hall on Thursday, March 13, to brainstorm on priority training fields for the new centres.
The Provincial Delegate said Limbe, Douala and Sangmalima were selected where Koreans would construct the hi-tech training centres. He said they would build, equip and provide trainers.
The Limbe meeting identified trades such as welding, fitter-machining, food processing and conservation, textile manufacturing and designing, industrial maintenance, painting and other related fields of industrial technology as well as printing technology.
Foretia urged parents to orientate their children towards the technical fields, for gone are the days when university degrees could easily fetch jobs."Our educational system of today is not tailored towards the needs of the job market. There many of our children idling at home with degrees in History and other subjects, yet they cannot be employed," Foretia said.
He said the centres would train people who would, upon graduation, qualify to be directly employed or be able to employ themselves.
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