HCM CITY — The culture, sports, and tourism sector is unable to find enough quality personnel, according to officials.
Nguyen Thanh Rum, director of the HCM City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism blamed it on a lack of incentives for specialists and talented people.
A severe shortage of skilled specialists who can train the next generations is also to blame, he said.
As a result, most fresh graduates fail to meet the job market's requirements, Ngo Quang Vinh, director of the Da Nang Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said.
"Schools fail to factor the needs of employers into their training programmes," he told a conference held in HCM City this week to gather suggestions for drafting regulations to develop the workforce in this decade.
The poor teaching methods and low investment in infrastructure and equipment are also causes for the poor education quality, he said.
Amending regulations and policies will be a major breakthrough in developing the workforce, he said, adding that the draft should spell out incentives to attract talent.
Together, sports, culture, and tourism sector employ around 1.62 million people of whom doctoral and master's degree-holders account for just 0.2 and 2.07 per cent, respectively, Nguyen Van Luu, deputy director of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's Training Department, said.
Graduates accounted for 36.58 per cent and vocational training graduates for 26.23 per cent, he said.
Some 435 schools and 1,000 vocational training centres around the country offer courses in culture, sports, and tourism that are attended by 26,000-30,500 students every year, he said.
But only 26.5 per cent of the 3,112 lecturers and teachers at these establishments have master's degrees, while 4.6 per cent have doctoral degrees.
Up to 30 per cent of all graduates fail to find suitable jobs or are unemployed, he added.
The ministry hopes to add 30 doctorates to the teaching staff every year through 2015, and 50 during 2016-20. — VNS