Describes and provides an orientation to nonformal vocational training (vestibule training, on-the-job training, apprenticeships, training for unemployed persons) and increases awareness of the potential and the legitimacy of out-of-school vocational training efforts. (JOW)

Transfer of training to job performance can be enhanced by appropriate follow-up activities. These may be a combination of trainee action plans, assignment of an interim project, coaching, or seminars and workshops. (SK)

Describes the implementation of a competency-based individualized and mediated vocational training system, designed to attract and train native Saudis for an increasingly industrialized Saudi Arabian workforce. (SK)

Faced with sizable oil revenues and the need and desire to expand and diversify its industrial potential, Saudi Arabia is improving its vocational training efforts and attempting to involve as many of its citizens in vocational training programs as possible. At present, Saudi Arabia is having to import skilled workers to keep up with necessary…

Saudi Arabia has a modern nationwide school system that embraces institutions from kindergarten through the university level and encompasses special, adult, industrial, and commercial education. Education is not compulsory, and coeducation does not exist. Secondary vocational industrial schools have been established for young men who have…