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Education Ministry targets 90,000 students with vocational diplomas by 2020

Published by Afterschool.my on Sep 14, 2012, 06:35 am

  • The Education Ministry targets having 90,000 students obtaining the Malaysia Vocational Diploma (MVD) qualification at vocational colleges nationwide by 2020, said its deputy minister Dr Mohd Puad Zarkashi.
  • He said the target could be achieved through various transformation programmes under the Vocational Education Programme that invovled the upgrading of 79 vocational high schools nationwide to vacational colleges by next year.
  • 15 vocational high schools had been upgraded to college level, whereby the students were undergoing their second semester.
  • For 2012, the ministry hopes to have 3,500 students purusing MVD in tourism, agriculture and aviation.
  • Moreover, seven new vocational colleges have been formed under the 10th Malaysia Plan to produce more highly skilled workers.

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