Minister of Industry calls for linking education and employment within a clear economic vision

Industry Minister Dr. Hussein Haj Hassan stressed yesterday the need to bring vocational education in line with the labor market requirements and create job prospects for fresh graduates. Haj Hassan was speaking at the UNESCO Palace in Beirut during the opening of the ‘Work and Orientation Fair and Forum’ organized by the European Institute for Cooperation and Development, in collaboration with Dar al Inaya association. He underlined that such a key issue is also strongly related to economic policies and national vision that the government should set to improve the services of the tourism, industry and agriculture sectors.  "Had we worked harder to develop our industry, expand our exports and study our markets, we could have designed technical and vocational education curricula so as to cater for those professions most in demand by industrial establishments.” For his part, the Minister of State for Administrative Development, Nabil De Freij, who also participated in the opening, warned that employment opportunities are becoming scarce with the absence of a clear vocational orientation, thus leading to high rates of migration among the young generation. 

(An Nahar, Al Mustaqbla, As Safir, January 20, 2016)

 

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