According to Hamada Abu Najma, director of Workers House for Studies, Jordan ranked second among 64 countries in the world, with an entrepreneurship suspension rate of 21.2%.
Abu Najma believes the reasons for this are due to the lack of adequate funding and competition to produce similar goods, as well as the small size of the Jordanian market.
Abu Najma also indicated that vocational training “cannot succeed and achieve the desired goal without keeping pace with the performance of other official institutions and their role in this regard”.
Experts have emphasized the importance of the vocational training institution in supplying the labor market with various specializations and levels of non-academic vocational training, as well as qualifying and preparing young people to establish their own projects.
However, the same experts criticized the lack of funding for these programs, as they have also criticized the absence of a database and the weakness of the local market’s ability to absorb more entrepreneurship projects, in light of the ongoing competition in specific areas, and the failure to keep pace with the evolution of labor market’s needs.
In turn, Director of Projects at the Phoenix Center for Economic and Informatics Studies, Doaa Al-Ajarmah, underscored that “many education and vocational training programs have provided suitable job opportunities for those enrolled in them, and that graduates of training programs get more job opportunities than those with university degrees in stagnant disciplines”.
The Phoenix Center for Economic and Informatics Studies pointed to the challenges facing the vocational training institution, namely, the lack of resources and the weak structure.
The same source explained that the total spending on public education in the Kingdom in 2017 amounted to one billion and 43 million dinars, of which only about 13 million, or 1.3%, were allocated to the vocational training institution.
Meanwhile, the Vocational Training Corporation receives aid from funds from international donors.
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