Mulki, JEA discuss engineers’ technical training

AMMAN — Prime Minister Hani Mulki on Thursday stressed the importance of applied and technical training for new engineers to prepare them for the labour market, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

During a meeting with the Jordan Engineers Association (JEA) President Majid Tabba, Mulki expressed the government’s keenness to partner with the association, in cooperation with the Development and Employment Fund and training centres and institutions, to find suitable training courses for freshly graduated engineers.

The premier stressed the government’s keeness to fund training programmes that have “clear” goals that would grant trainees certificates to enhance their ability to enter the labour market.

Mulki noted the government’s recent decision regarding obligatory employment of Jordanian labourers at construction projects in the governorates.