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Making handicrafts at Binh Dinh Town agricultural co-operative. Photo N.H |
Binh Dinh Union of Co-operatives (UC) has promoted the managerial staff training, aiming to improve the quality of the collective economy in the past few years. Binh Dinh Newspaper’s reporter interviewed deputy head of provincial UC Ngo Thanh Ly about the issue.
How do you evaluate the provincial UC managerial staff’s qualifications?
At present, Binh Dinh has 287 co-operatives and co-operative groups, including 194 agricultural co-operatives and 103 non-agricultural co-operatives. The collective economy in Binh Dinh has gradually developed, contributing to the socio-economic development.
Still, the low qualifications of the managerial staff are one of the reasons resulting in its weaknesses. Among a staff of 1,895, there are only 1,567 taking part in short-term train courses, according to the statistics released by provincial UC.
The figure showed that training and re-training of the managerial staff who work in co-operatives in Binh Dinh is crucial and urgent.
How has the provincial UC carried out the managerial staff training?
The provincial UC and functional bodies have opened many training courses, helping improve the co-operative managerial staff’s qualifications since 2004.
Provincial leaders are greatly concerned of the long-term training of the managerial staff. Long-term courses help them study the whole regulated curricula; meanwhile, short-term ones provide policies on the collective economy and train them in professional knowledge. However, the managerial staff also have to be self-taught.
What do the provincial UC plan to improve the qualifications of the managerial staff in co-operatives to implement the collective economy development project by 2008-10 approved by provincial People’s Committee?
Binh Dinh targets at 100% of the key co-operative managerial staff joining training courses, 20% getting college degree, and 40% gaining secondary degree by 2010.
This aim will require a great effort. We will closely cooperate with functional bodies and schools to open training courses.
Those who are fit for requirements will be encouraged to attend regular or in-service training courses. They then have to work at co-operatives for at least five years.
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