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Tue, 05/24/2011 - 13:29
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More workers needed in Thailand’s industrial sector
BANGKOK, May 24 (TNA) - Thai private and government sectors have called on vocational institutes to produce more graduates to supply the labour market in the industrial sector.
Caretaker Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, delivered his remarks at the opening of the Thai Vocational Qualifications Institute (TVQI), saying that rising crop prices are driving more workers toward the agricultural sector, causing labour shortages in the industrial sector. He also said educational institutes and private sectors should, therefore, cooperate to develop workers' skills to meet market demand, by increasing the number of vocational graduates in the country’s current labour force from 40 percent to 60 percent.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, Dusit Nontanakorn, said in the next 5-6 years, the Thai industrial sector would need around several hundred thousand additional skilled workers. He therefore wanted to see the new government focus more on a long-term national development plan, rather than the short-term one currently in use by political parties in election campaigns to maximize votes.
Chairman of the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI), Payungsak Chartsutipol, said the Thai industrial sector still demanded some 2.5 to 3 hundred thousand workers. Sixty percent of them would be vocational graduates and higher vocational graduates, while 10 percent bachelor-degree graduates. (TNA)
Caretaker Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, delivered his remarks at the opening of the Thai Vocational Qualifications Institute (TVQI), saying that rising crop prices are driving more workers toward the agricultural sector, causing labour shortages in the industrial sector. He also said educational institutes and private sectors should, therefore, cooperate to develop workers' skills to meet market demand, by increasing the number of vocational graduates in the country’s current labour force from 40 percent to 60 percent.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, Dusit Nontanakorn, said in the next 5-6 years, the Thai industrial sector would need around several hundred thousand additional skilled workers. He therefore wanted to see the new government focus more on a long-term national development plan, rather than the short-term one currently in use by political parties in election campaigns to maximize votes.
Chairman of the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI), Payungsak Chartsutipol, said the Thai industrial sector still demanded some 2.5 to 3 hundred thousand workers. Sixty percent of them would be vocational graduates and higher vocational graduates, while 10 percent bachelor-degree graduates. (TNA)
