Technical and Vocational Training Corporation

It is the government agency concerned with technical and vocational training in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since 1400 AH / 1980 AD.

The total number of TVTC facilities reaches 260, covering all parts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

It used to teach the subjects of measurements, compound numbers, fractions, calligraphy, drawing, bookkeeping principles, arithmetic, flat and stereoscopic geometry, trigonometry, Islamic sciences, Arabic language, sociology, carpentry, blacksmithing, and Shoe manufacturing.

Technical and vocational education[2] was also started by establishing an Industrial school in Jeddah during the reign of King Abdulaziz in 1369 AH.

[4] Accordingly, the organization began to carry out its tasks by developing programs and human resources in line with the country's responsibility to meet the needs of the business sector.

As a result, the urgent need to create highly qualified national cadres capable of advancing the requirements of the ambitious development plans of the state was apparent.

The High Order confirmed that the responsibility for expanding this pattern lay on TVTC, which achieved several positive aspects, including: The royal endorsement for the bachelor's program No.

According to the idea of joining technical and vocational training fields under one umbrella, the Council of Ministers Resolution No.

[1] Safety air-conditioning Management Technical colleges qualify students at high school or their equivalent to obtain an intermediate university degree (sixth level of the National Qualifications Framework).

These colleges also offer some applied bachelor programs (seventh level of the National Qualifications Framework) to qualify trainees as technical engineers to meet the needs of the local labor market by technical human resources or recruited them as trainers in the TVTC facilities.

Female graduates from technical colleges for girls are granted an intermediate university degree after completing the core training requirements.

[1] Non-profit technical training institutes that the TVTC adopts to establish, license, supervise, and operate with the private sector.

Institutes for strategic partnerships have been established in pursuit of the objectives of the National Transformation Program that comes within the Kingdom's vision 2030, as the TVTC represented by the National Center for Strategic Partnerships has involved the private sector in its training program system to ensure the quality of training, and to meet the labor market needs of qualified national cadres, as it aims to meet the needs of the private sector in the priority sectors of emiratisation.

These institutes also offer various evening training programs available to all members of the society and for many professions, according to the needs of the business sector.

The center also contributes to spreading technical and professional awareness by providing programs for different groups of society of different ages, cultural and economic levels in the form of lectures, scientific meetings, training programs and courses, and other means available to enable all members of society to keep pace with the development of technical and vocational fields.

A non-profit institute specializing in supporting and empowering those wishing to engage in self-employment, and owners of small and medium enterprises through training and qualification, providing advice, guidance, incubating projects, assistance in obtaining funding from funding agencies, and facilitating government procedures by an elite group of national entrepreneurs in the field of entrepreneurship.

The program focuses during a full training semester on the communication skills in English that the trainee needs to work in the private sector.

In response to the policy of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques government aimed at strengthening integration between the countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab Gulf States, and developing the Kingdom's relationship with Arab and Islamic countries and friendly countries in a way that achieves common interests, TVTC has been keen to participate in many events and activities in the field of technical and vocational training in the GCC countries through its participation and hosting of some meetings held by officials and specialists in the sectors of technical and vocational training and the exchange of visits, information and successful experiences, and participation in the meetings of directors and presidents of universities and higher education institutions in the GCC countries, in addition to participating in conferences, seminars and other events, and cooperating with the Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States.

For years, the Foundation has used numbers of teachers, trainers and faculty members from Arab countries to teach and train.