MELBOURNE (NNN-Bernama) -- Asian countries like India are hungry for skilled workers and Australia needs to engage more actively in providing vocational and educational training services in these nations, a minister said.
Speaking at the Australia India Skills Conference in Perth recently, Tertiary Education Minister Chris Evans said Australia needed to do more to impart know-how and training to Asian nations.
Evans said vocational education had been "very much on the agenda" at last week's East Asia Summit in Indonesia, Press Trust of India reported.
"[There was] very much a focus for developing partnerships that went to things like qualification recognition, a focus on standards, quality assurance and labour mobility," he said.
Evans also admitted the federal government had been slow to see the opportunities.
"But it is the case that VET (Vocational and educational training services) is going to be a key area of engagement between Australia and various Asian countries, particularly India."
Evans also pinpointed that India required to upskill 500 million people which presented a huge challenge. --NNN-BERNAMA
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