Saudi Gazette report

RIYADH – The Technical and Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC) has set up two digital colleges for girls, where training is scheduled to begin at the start of the new academic year, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) cited the Governor of TVTC Dr. Ahmed Bin Fahd Al-Fuhaid as disclosing on Saturday.

This comes as part of the efforts being exerted by TVTC to support programs for developing and qualifying women in Saudi Arabia.

The colleges in Riyadh and Jeddah will offer diploma and bachelors programs in digital fields, like data technologies, network systems management, software, multimedia, e-marketing and web technologies.

Al-Fuhaid said: "This trend to set up digital technology colleges has come so as to keep abreast with the labor market needs for digital jobs and to empower women in this field. We will have qualified graduates having the experience and competence required by the labor market in future."

These projects come within the scheme to expand girls’ training, through which TVTC seeks to expand qualitatively in the field of technical and vocational training and to include the various regions of the Kingdom, he said.

Al-Fuhaid appreciated the efforts of the prudent leadership in supporting the technical training sector to take confident steps toward launching of quality technical and technological training and expanding in this direction so that it can meet the training needs of the Saudi young men and women as well as the present and future requirements for national development.

The new digital technology colleges have been designed according to the latest engineering needs. They bring together the needed training facilities and add new technical specializations. The capacity of the two colleges is estimated at 4,000 trainees, Dr. Al-Fuhaid added.

He praised the efforts of TVTC, which come within its strategic goals to create a safe and environment for training, based on performance evaluation indicators such as professional expansion, assimilation, qualification and development of national cadres, and the use of optimal resources to implement development training projects that are in line with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030.

The TVTC recently announced dates for admission and registration in various specializations and programs at its colleges and institutes in all regions of the Kingdom.