June 11, 2024, Phnom Penh
The Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) under the Ministry of Labors and Vocational Training (MLVT) organized a forum to promote the partnership between Technical Training Institutes (TTIs) and private sectors at the TVET Park on 11th July 2024 with more than hundreds of companies and business associations participated in this event. The Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) has contributed to socioeconomic advancement by establishing and upgrading labor market demands as well as generating trained employees and technicians.
In Cambodia, TVET operates under four key objectives, as stated in the 2017-2025 National TVET Policy: (1) to improve TVET quality in order to meet national and international market demands; (2) to increase equitable access to TVET for employment generation; (3) to promote public-private partnerships and aggregate resources from stakeholders to support TVET’s sustainable development; and (4) to improve TVET system governance.
MLVT has been in charge of TVET tasks since 2005, overseeing non-formal and informal (short course) vocational training through the Directorate General of TVET. MLVT now has 104 TVET-recognized institutions, comprising 37 governmental institutes, 41 private institutes, and 26 nonprofit organizations that provide technical and vocational training in 25 capital city or provinces (MLVT, 2021).
TVET institutes in Cambodia offer short and long-term training at eight levels for trainees, students, youth, and the general public, including four certificate programmes, an associate degree, a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, and a doctoral degree. Short-course training programmes cover electrical installation, water supply, machine repair, car repair, motorcycle repair, mobile phone repair, computer repair, food and beverage services, tailoring, salon, cosmetics, wedding embellishment, animal raising, vegetable growing, fruit, and other skills. A long-course curriculum is accessible both in the classroom and in the community. Architecture, civil construction, electrical, electronics, mechanical, air-conditioning, automotive, entrepreneurship, accounting, computer science, information technology, telecommunications, business, tourism, and other skills are taught in one-year or more long-term training programmes.
