“Our government is actively supporting vocational education and training and it is very important to pass a message that in today’s labour market one can find very good employment opportunities by following this path, that this very nice school – education centre of Tripoli, where vocational high schools, second chance schools, SAEK, even the academy of vocational training in pharmacy are operating, is a living cell, which shows that vocational education and training is a model
These were among the remarks made by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Tripoli after a visit to the Pharmaceutical Vocational Training Academy.
As he added, “I look forward to soon having other vocational training academies in other regions of the country, so that together with local entrepreneurship, industry and production, we can formulate specialized curricula that will ensure at a young age for graduates a very good professional rehabilitation, with good salaries and very good job prospects.”
Referring to the pharmacy vocational training academy, the Prime Minister said, among other things, that “the labour market is changing at a dramatic pace and what is happening here in Tripoli is an image of the future, as the first pharmacy vocational training academy was established here, which is a partnership between the Panhellenic Union of Pharmaceutical Industries and the Ministry of Education”, he continued: “We can offer young children that training and paid internships so that after two years they can be absorbed in jobs here near the industrial area of Tripoli, where Greek pharmaceutical companies are investing hundreds of millions of euros to create new production units.”
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