Job training for 100,000 students

GUANGZHOU: Twelve vocational high schools will be built in the Pearl River Delta over the next few years to train up to 100,000 students from less-developed areas of Guangdong to meet the soaring demand for skilled workers in the region, a local education official said yesterday.

A Nanfang Daily report quoted Luo Weiqi, director of the provincial education department, as saying: "The development of vocational education will be a priority over the next few years.

"A dozen vocational schools, each with 5,000 to 10,000 students, will be set up, and secondary schools in better developed areas of the Pearl River Delta region will be encouraged to work with their counterparts in less developed regions."