Oriental Daily - Berjaya Corporation, Top Glove and Tropicana jointly provides TVET training program

Berjaya Corp. Bhd (BJCORP, 3395, main market, industrial products), Top Glove Corp. Bhd. (TOPGLOV, 7113, main market, healthcare) and Tropicana Corp. Bhd. (TROP, 5401, main market, property) inked a certificate of collaboration (CoC) with the Ministry of Education to upgrade technical and vocational education and training (TVET).

The collaboration would emphasize the provision of training, facilities, workshops, career opportunities and networks for TVET students. Apart from three of the above-mentioned corporates, another participating corporate in this contract is Naza Group.

Education Ministry Deputy Secretary-General for Strategic Planning Datuk Kamel Mohamad stated that in 2017, there’s one in every five graduates who is still unemployed after 6 months graduated.

Datuk Kamel Mohamad added, nevertheless according to Jobstreet in 2018, there’s 30% of corporates undergone business expansion and in need of more employees. “TVET is important in alleviating the mismatch in supply and demand of skills and expections.”

Meanwhile, Top Glove Corp. Bhd. manufacturing and operations advisor Datuk Dr Andy Seo said TVET able to improve and alleviate to match the requirements of Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR4.0). “Especially in the field of robotic and automatic industry, it will need large amount of high-skill workers to expand the industry.”

Top Glove Corp. Bhd. aiming to be the top 500 corporates by 2040 and in order to achieve this vision the group will expand the business and increase employment that is expected to hire 30 times more than current headcounts. Up to date, the group has 18,000 employees.