Tunisian Republic
During the first seven months of the year 2010, contracts for training to insertion in professional life (SIVP) rose by 44.6% over the same period of the previous year.
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President Ben Ali takes interest in upgrading overall vocational training system and graduates employability
CARTHAGE, August 06, 2010
Furtherance of the vocational training system upgrading and current efforts for strengthening the employability of university graduates were under focus as President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali met, on Friday August 06, 2010, with Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi.
The Head of State enquired about measures taken to adjust training to the needs of economic companies, develop communication and orientation in this area and promote continuing training.
President Ben Ali recommended further strengthening partnership mechanisms with professional structures and companies by stepping up framework conventions accompanied with contract-objectives in all sectors.
He also recommended boosting on-demand training and identifying the needs of different governorates in training specialities and vitalising development action.
The Head of State emphasised the need to finish off training centers’ adherence to the quality system and speed up the setting up of co-diplomation and mutual recognition of diplomas, in association with specialised international structures and organisations.
He stressed the necessity to follow up the integration of vocational training centers’ graduates in professional life and streamline the achievement of the e-training programme for laborers to build their skills and open new prospects for professional advancement.
To improve the implementation of the programme to strengthen the employability of university graduates, the President of the Republic recommended making better known mechanisms and incentives set up for the employment of executives and improving the rate of guidance within companies, step up conventions with nascent companies to identify their needs in university graduates, define the content of appropriate training and energise the different mechanisms of guidance of holders of project ideas among university graduates.
The Head of State recommended, in this context, to seek to ensure best conditions for implementing the qualifying training programme in languages, information and communication technology and health sciences.
In another connection, the President of the Republic enquired about the preliminary results of the study he had ordered in order to improve the performance of the tourist sector.
He recommended further studying submitted proposals by involving the sector’s professionals in establishing an operational strategy designed to enhance the tourist training system performance, in accordance with international standards, so as to contribute to improve the quality of services, strengthen the sector’s competitiveness and enhance its position in the national economy.
Co-operation agreement between ANETI and French "Pole Emploi" signed
TUNIS, June 25, 2010
A co-operation agreement in international occupational mobility was signed, on Thursday June 25, 2010, between the National Employment and Self-Employment Agency (ANETI) and French "Pole Emploi," on the sidelines of the closing of the seminar on sustainability of ANETI's international mobility system.
This seminar crowns the 28-month-long implementation of the multilateral project "Aeneas," co-funded with the European Union at 75%.
The project is designed to improve conditions for Tunisian skills and laborer’s movement between the two shores of the Mediterranean and further encourage qualifying and legal migration, particularly by offering decent jobs suitable to qualifications of candidates for emigration.
It is a multilateral project proposed in 2006 by France's "Pole Emploi" (formerly ANPE) and carried out over the past period by ANETI, in association with six other partners that include the Vocational Training and Employment Office of Belgian Walloon region and the Italian Labour Ministry.
Closing this seminar, Minister of Vocational Training and Employment Mohamed Agrebi praised the results of this project created for job applicants seeking to build their capacities and benefit from job opportunities or training courses abroad.
He reminded that Tunisia continues to invest in human resources training, at the level of higher education, underlining that a complementary and certified training programme in languages and information technology has been set up for 20,000 university graduates to increase their chances of integration in the job market.
France's ambassador in Tunis Pierre Menat hailed the efforts exerted by all partners in this project which involves, he said, sensitive issues, namely migration and employment.
He highlighted the ambitious targets of this project which has been carried out in a spirit of constructive and positive co-operation between Tunisian and European partners. This project, he added, is a new landmark towards strengthening the advanced status of Tunisia within the European Union which is backed by France.
Topics addressed on the occasion included: "Risks of Illegal Emigration and Preventive Measures," "Agreement on Co-management of Migratory Flows between France and Tunisia," and "Information System on International Employment Mobility within ANETI."
Head of State chairs cabinet meeting
Carthage, June 16, 2010
The cabinet meeting was held on Wednesday june 16, 2010 under the chairmanship of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.
The meeting listened to an exposé on employment from which it appears, in particular, that employment and self- employment offices recorded 79,156 job offers in the first five months of the current year compared with 67,284 in the same period of last year.
The National Employment Fund 21-21 provided 81,411 opportunities for qualification and integration till May 2010.
It has also been possible to guide 15,000 university graduates among those who had completed their studies in or before 2007 and remained unemployment for a long period of time.
The meeting also reviewed progress of the national programme of qualifying training in languages and information technology, which involves 20,000 higher-education graduates, and whose implementation started on June 15, 2010.
The Head of State recommended to ensure judicious implementation of this programme and see to it to guarantee quality of training to help the beneficiaries obtain certifications from structures acknowledged worldwide, which would guarantee their chances for better integration into professional life, both at home and abroad.
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