S'wak ILPs, ADTECs eye more intakes : Requirements lowered for locals and Sabahans

Kuching: Entry qualification to the industrial training Institutes (ILPs) and advanced technology training centres (ADTECs) run by the Manpower Department in Sarawak has been lowered with this January intake. Human Resource Minister Datuk Seri Richard Riot said this was at the request of Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem in order to allow more SPM school leavers to enter.

He said this was only applicable to local students as well as those from Sabah pursuing diploma and certificate courses at the colleges concerned.

Making the announcement at a media conference here Friday, Riot said he hoped this would spur higher enrolment.

"For the certificate courses at the ILP, the applicants need to pass the SPM.

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"For the diploma level courses at ADTECs, they must pass the SPM with credits in mathematics and two other subjects," Riot stressed the lowering of the qualification entry would not affect the quality or standard of the training or of the standard of the trainees.

"We will hold extra classes in the core subjects," he said.

He thus called on SPM school leavers in the two states to make use of the golden opportunity to pursue technical education available in Kota Samarahan, Miri and Bintulu.

"It is the government's aim by this year to increase the number of technocrats to 33 per cent from the current 28 per cent from within the 14.8 million total workforce nationwide.

"Malaysia by 2020 needs to have 50 per cent of its total workforce to have technical qualifications in order to become a progressive nation," he said.

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He also said Sabahans and Sarawakians should not hesitate to apply to enter similar centres in the peninsula if there were not enough places locally.

Riot said there were 302 courses at both certificate and diploma level to choose from in those centres in the peninsula compared to only 32 offered in the state. – Bernama

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