“The first class of the vocational school (welders, locksmiths, electricians i.e.) will graduate this year. Over the next three years, we plan to offset the shortage of labor at our plant with these two schools,” Valer Blidar told ZF.
The industrialist says the lack of those types of employees, i.e. foremen, welders or locksmiths could be addressed if only more schools were established throughout the country.
Training young people in a technical school takes two years, and three years in a vocational school.
A number of 10,500 students graduated from vocational schools last year, ten times fewer than ten years ago, according to the latest data available.
“We’ve only got four foremen left out of 100, because they retired. We have been unable to replace them because there aren’t any schools left to train them. We have secured the approval of the Education Ministry to establish the technical school.”
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)