The National Youth Skills Institute (IKBN) in Penawar, Johor, will be
turned into a special excellence centre for skills in the oil and gas
industry, Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek said
Monday.
This was because the Iskandar Malaysia development corridor would require between 30,000 and 40,000 oil and gas industry workers over the next five years, he said.
"Work to transform the IKBN is going on and the first batch of trainees in the field will be recruited in July for a six-month course," he told reporters after the presentation of diplomas to some of the 3,805 graduates at the IKBN's eighth convocation.
Ahmad Shabery said 12 memoranda of understanding (MOU) would be signed this year between IKBN and companies, among them Esso and the Lion Group of Companies, as part of the effort to forge strategic partnerships to provide more opportunities for students to undergo industrial training for gainful employment.
He also said that to further produce highly skilled graduates, five more IKBN, at Alor Gajah, Chembong, Pagoh, Bukit Mertajam and Bachok, would be made excellence centres offering advanced diploma training up to the fifth level, in the hospitality, automotive, mechanical, electronic and civil engineering sectors.
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