Creating international standard jobs for 700 disadvantaged Vietnamese youth

The project "Enhancing community capacity for disadvantaged youth" targets 700 Vietnamese youth within the framework of the "One Million Dialogues" initiative, a non-profit activity to be implemented in 2023.

700 Vietnamese youth will receive free international standard vocational training (Illustration: TL).

The project awarded 700 accounts to 700 Vietnamese youth aged 15 and above who do not have the financial means to study online 27 professional certificate training courses in 3 fields including Information Technology, Data and Commerce on the Coursera platform (an online learning platform used by more than 60 million people and adopted by 200 leading universities in the world ).

Training programs provided by large corporations such as Google, IBM, Meta... provide learners with important knowledge and skills for work. In addition, young people are also awarded certificates after each course to increase their prospects of accessing many career opportunities.

The project aims to promote the building of an educational foundation for the young generation, the human resources that determine the development of each country. Thereby, it is hoped to shorten the gap of inequality in access to education in developing industries and professions that need to recruit high-quality human resources, while creating opportunities for talented young people to contribute their intelligence to the process of improving the quality of life, promoting the progress of the community and society.

It is known that the project is deployed globally with 20,000 learning opportunities worldwide by 2030.

Mr. Le Dinh Hieu, CEO of GAP Academy, also the founder of the project to teach English and IT to the deaf, shared that in reality, there are many students who graduate but are not ready to work. Providing young people with solid professional knowledge to be able to work, especially working at global corporations is very necessary. This helps learners optimize career opportunities as well as orient domestic human resources to be able to assert and compete in the global working environment.

The National Survey on Vietnamese Adolescents and Youth (SAVY) once showed that up to 24% of surveyed youth dropped out of school before the age of 15 and 16% dropped out of school between the ages of 20-25.

The dropout rate after completing grades 1 to 5 is 12%, from grades 6 to 8 is 21% and after grade 9 alone this rate is 27% of those who have dropped out. According to SAVY, only 46.3% of Vietnamese youth attend secondary school.

Poverty is the most frequently cited factor in causing school dropouts among Vietnamese children. Among the main reasons why adolescents drop out of school, “having to work for the family” accounts for 19%, “not having money to pay school fees” 18%, “not wanting to go to school anymore” 17%, “failing to pass exams” 15% and “poor academic performance” 9%.

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