Gyeonggi-do Transitions Workforce Training Project to 'Online Remote Education'

[Asia Economy (Uijeongbu) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Gyeonggi Province will convert various human resource development projects, which were suspended due to 'COVID-19,' into an 'online remote education method' and implement them. In addition, training fees will be paid in advance to institutions and instructors experiencing economic difficulties due to the suspension of education and training.

On the 14th, Gyeonggi Province announced that it had prepared and implemented the 'Gyeonggi Province Human Resource Development Project Remote Lecture and Advance Payment Guidelines' containing these details.

The province had planned to train 223,000 people through 53 human resource development projects this year. However, due to the spread of the COVID-19 infectious disease, about 40 training courses have been inevitably postponed or suspended.

Accordingly, the province decided to sequentially start 'online remote lectures' within this month to ensure smooth manpower supply after COVID-19 stabilizes and to alleviate the economic burden on trainees, private education training institutions, and instructors.

Theory-centered courses will all be converted to online lectures, and for some courses requiring practical training, education will be conducted individually or in small groups while maintaining social distancing.

Trainees participating in the education will receive full training allowances, confirming attendance status just like existing offline lectures.

Furthermore, the province will also consider a plan to prepay part of the training fees necessary for instructor allowances or textbook purchases to private education training institutions commissioned by Gyeonggi Province to carry out human resource development projects.

Previously, training fees were paid after the operation of the education course, but considering the urgency of the situation, 30% of the training fees can be prepaid immediately after the conclusion of the consignment contract.

Kim Gyu-sik, Director of Economic Planning at the province, evaluated, "This measure has laid the foundation for the various human resource development projects planned for this year to be carried out normally."

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