National HR committee reviews progress

AMMAN — The National Committee for Human Resources Development on Sunday reviewed progress and recommendations towards developing a well-defined HR improvement system.

The committee held an extended meeting on Sunday to discuss the outcomes and recommendations reached by 17 sub-committees that were formed to tackle various aspects under the strategy.

The committee held 15 meetings with the participation of experts, educators and academics in various areas, its president, Wajih Owais, said at the meeting Sunday.

Following the meetings and discussions, it was agreed to focus on several issues in the strategy, including primary education, higher education, vocational training and other aspects related to the labour market, supporting youth and development of human resources.

“The current deteriorating situation of education does not accept half-solutions or delaying the problems we face. There is no alternative to fundamental change,” Owais, a former higher education minister, said, stressing that the strategy will play a key role in further reforms in several sectors.

He added that several meetings were held with experts, officials and stakeholders related to each of the strategy’s aspects. 

Heads of the various sub-committees also reviewed the progress made in each aspect of the strategy.

The National Committee for Human Resources Development was formed in April last year after His Majesty King Abdullah sent a letter to Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour highlighting an urgent need for Jordan to develop an integrated, comprehensive, strategic and well-defined system for human resources development.   

In the letter, the King said the committee should prepare a national strategy, from which a 10-year plan to develop several sectors could be drawn.

The plan will deal with developing elementary education, higher education, technical education and vocational training sectors with the purpose of achieving a qualitative leap in human resources and deciding on a set of reform policies that can support the modernisation and development process.