PETALING JAYA, March 23 — The state government aims to improve the state’s technical and vocational education and training (TVET) ecosystem to ensure more workers are trained and offered high-paying jobs.
Menteri Besar Dato’ Seri Amirudin Shari said numerous sectors in Selangor need to be filled by a highly skilled workforce, including the electrical and electronics (E&E), biotechnology, aerospace, and rail manufacturing sectors.
“That is why we try to improve our TVET ecosystem: to make sure we manage to capture and get good students, turn them into highly skilled workers, and offer them high-paying jobs.
“We will work hard for that and make sure the education institutions are at par and at the same wavelength with the industry,” he said to the press after launching the TVET Education and Uniformed Bodies Career Expo today.
Amirudin added the state government plans to upgrade Universiti Selangor (UniSel) into a technical and vocational university, as well as develop the modules of the programmes offered by the Selangor Technical Skills Development Centre (STDC) to match industrial demands.
— Bernama
