In Costa Rica, businessmen and authorities signed a protocol defining concrete actions to implement and promote dual education in the country.
The protocol enables concrete actions to be formalized for the implementation and promotion of Presential-Dual Training among companies associated with the Chamber of Industries of Costa Rica (CICR) and other organizations, as well as to increase training opportunities and job opportunities for social mobility, informed the industrial sector guild.
Only 25% of graduates from Costa Rica 's National Institute of Learning managed to obtain a job in the specialty in which they supposedly were trained.
Two articles in Nacion.com warn of the very serious situation that is affecting not only young people who are wasting their time studying what will not help them get a job, but also that demand from companies for trained personnel is not being satisfied either, diminishing the competitiveness of the Costa Rican economy, and bringing down the aforementioned superiority of the country's human capital over the rest of the region.
The absence of a law regulating dual education has not prevented a tourist subsidiary of Florida Ice & Farm from implementing a successful program using this format.
The program has started to be implemented in the tourism sector through the National Training Institute (INA) and the company Florida Ice and Farm.The students"...
A trust has been approved which will start off with $1.2 million to fund training plans and provide work training for free zone companies.
The funds for the Trust come from the Ministry of Foreign Trade's budget, and "... companies that receive the incentive must also provide part of the funding for the program that they request, according to the ministry."
The real entrepreneurs and CEOs do not need a state official, who will never be an entrepreneur, to tell them how to run a company and increase revenues.
In Costa Rica teachers at the National Institute who trains technicians, are preparing to teach classes on "social solidarity economy" under the concept that "private businesses have little or no critical concience about workers".
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Private companies are wary of the recent inclusion of concepts related to cooperatives and unions in the educational programs at the National Institute of Learning, whose main objective is the teaching of technical skills, and whose resources come mainly, with 80%, from the private sector.
Companies are struggling to find employees with skills in information technology, programming and networking, electricity, processing and assembly of medical parts.
The Talent Shortage study (2014) by Manpower notes that "... 51% of the 620 Costa Rican employers surveyed said they can not find suitable professionals to perform the tasks required by their company." The main cause, according to the contractors, is lack of technical skills.
Industrialists in Costa Rica have asked for the Instituto Nacional de Aprendizaje to be converted into a non-state public entity led by the sectors that fund it.
The proposal is part of an action plan to be submitted by employers from industry to government in the Congress on Industrial Policy, to be held on July 17 at the Crowne Corobicí hotel in San José.
A legal bill includes a business proposal to train students simultaneously in schools and businesses.
From a press release from the Costa Rican Union of Chambers and Associations of the Private Business Sector (UCCAEP):
A project that enables young people to "learn by doing" was signed on Tuesday by the President of the Republic, Laura Chinchilla, so that it can be discussed in the Legislative Assembly.
They recommend promoting improvements in areas such as legal certainty, procedures and infrastructure, in order to increase competitiveness and regain business confidence.
In Costa Rica entrepreneurs are asking for technical education to be responsive to the actual demand of productive sectors.
Costa Rican businesses believe that in order to achieve this goal the National Training Institute must respond to the changing technical criteria and engage more with businesses.
The bureaucratic requirements contained in a bill advancing in Congress would continue to hamper access to credit for entrepreneurs.
A few days ago Congress ruled on the Law for Strengthening Development Banking, under which sureties are not required, interest would be low and deadlines for payment would be longer. However, among other things, entrepreneurs who wish to take out a loan would be required to take a training course at the National Training Institute (INA by its initials in Spanish) in order to get a certificate which would allow them to make the appropriate application.
Six new hotels will be opening in the province of Guanacaste between late 2013 and mid-2014.
An article in Nacion.com reports that "a report commissioned by this newspaper with the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT) determined that, as expected, four major projects will be opening in Guanacaste starting from the end of this year,."
Four government agencies have joined together to survey the range of fresh products in different regions around the country.
The first area to be studied was the so-called Brunca region, in the south, in which are planted over 500 hectares of blackberry, some 480 hectares of native rambutan, 400 improved rambutan and 550 hectares of plantains and bananas.
The National Training Institute (INA in Spanish) in Costa Rica will build a new headquarters in Heredia providing IT training programs as well as subjects such as food, environmental management, and languages.
The establishment will be 4900 square meters, and its opening is planned for September 2011.
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