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[Angola] The Integrated Centre for Technological Training to bridge unemployment gap with technical training programme
The Integrated Centre for Technological Training (Cinfotec) plans to train and certify over 3500 Angolans on technical skills as it seeks to bridge the unemployment gap.
This will be a jump from the 2578 trained last year. According to Gilberto Figureira of the institution it is fundamental to endow professionals with the right competences and tools in areas like electricity, mechatronics, information and communication technologies, and meteorology.
“These tools will enable the trainees to be ready for the demand being imposed by the new firms operating in the industry sector”, he said.
He also revealed that for this year Cinfotec intends to increase the number of vacancies, mainly to guarantee the technical training of more young people.
Since its creation, in the year 2008, Cinfotec has already trained 10,514 people.
In 2016, the institution managed to employ 213 young people, which represents 85 per cent of the total number of the students that got successfully trained in the institution last year.
