New features of the contest

The 12th National Vocational Skills Competition will take place from December 2 to December 12, 2021 after being postponed for a while amid the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic. This year’s contest is expected to have about 600 contestants from many vocational schools, businesses, and so on across the country. Contestants will compete in 35 occupations, of which 29 are organized in the form of socialization.

Faced with the increasing requirements of the society for human resources in various professions, many requirements and tasks were set forth by the Prime Minister in Directive No. 24/CT-TTg dated May 28, 2020 on promoting human resource development. Skilled workforce contributes to improving labor productivity and increasing national competitiveness in the new situation. Therefore, the 12th National Vocational Skills Examination in 2021 must be renewed. Assoc. Dr. Nguyen Thi Viet Huong, Deputy Director General of the General Department of Vocational Education and Training (VET), said that in the face of challenges, the National Vocational Skills Exam must approach the world’s modern technical level. Accordingly, the contest must catch up with the trend of international technical and professional skills.

Director General of the General Department of Vocational Education Truong Anh Dung speaks at the 12th Competition Announcement Conference

Dr. Truong Anh Dung, Director General of the General Department of Vocational Education and Training, said that the General Assembly of the World Vocational Skills Competition has agreed to take 2021 as the year of innovation. Therefore, the 12th National Vocational Skills Competition must be a truly innovative and practical contest, contributing to the improvement of vocational skills levels for learners and workers and accessing world-class qualifications. gender. That is the philosophy “Experimental Education – Learning by doing”, the world’s leading educational philosophy that is contributed to spreading and applying after this competition. Accordingly, the object of participation in the contest has been expanded. Specifically, students who are studying at vocational education institutions or employees who are working at businesses and companies under the age of 60 are eligible to register. According to the organizers, the expansion of the contest participants also contributes to spreading the movement of vocational training, developing labor skills, promoting the training of high-quality human resources to meet social needs. All candidates will have the opportunity to demonstrate their competence in all the professions they learn at school, at businesses and also self-study via the internet, demonstrating the development of a learning society in vocational education.

Elevator technical skills test for the first time

This year’s National Vocational Skills Competition aims to prepare the Vietnamese delegation to participate in the Asian Skills Competition 2022, the 46th World Skills Competition 2022 in Shanghai, China. Notably at the contest, one of the new features that many people expect is the elevator technical skills contest. Currently, 4 teams have registered to participate in the elevator installation competition. Mr. Hoa Van Ngu – Technical Head of TCVN/TC 178 Elevators and escalators said that the elevator market in Vietnam is very potential. According to the general trend, when there are more and more elevators, it is necessary to train human resources to serve manufacturing, installation, maintenance and repair work.

With similar views, one of the first activities of the Vietnam Elevator Association when it was established was to coordinate with relevant authorities to soon identify and formalize the training of technical human resources. elevator art. According to the Association’s leaders, the first goal of putting the content of the elevator skills contest into the competition is towards the Association working with the General Department of Vocational Education and Training to build a training program framework, as a basis for identifying codes. industry, job code for this profession, avoid strong training for everyone to do, training according to trends, no orientation, no program, which results in a waste of effort, money and human resources. While elevators belong to group 2 products and goods, which are potentially unsafe products and goods, users need to comply with their own standards and regulations…

For the first time in the contest, there is more content of the elevator engineering contest

Although it was still difficult in the early days of establishment, that policy was still concretized by the Association in contributing human and material resources to this year’s contest. According to the representative of the contest organizers, for this year’s elevator technical competition, the Vietnam Elevator Association will finance the implementation and response to the socialization of each part of the contest. Accordingly, the organizing committee will provide support for the exam questions, support for experts, and carry out the organization of the contest so that the contest is objective, transparent and fair. As for the equipment, the location is prepared by the Association. It is a tripartite coordination including the State, Associations and enterprises, which is expected to bring great benefits to businesses in the industry.

Nguyen Linh