KOTA KINABALU: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi assures that people of Sabah would have more employment opportunities.
Ahmad Zahid, who is also chairman of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) council, said he would ensure the young generation to be given TVET education.
"We should not just look into projects, but the effectiveness of (economic spillovers) to the people.
"We know that there is RM11 billion worth of foreign investment in Sabah, which means that confidence in the state's significant potential is high.
"The foreign and domestic investments in the state would require skilled workers, therefore the people of Sabah would be given jobs of high technology (through TVET education)," he said during the launching of Sabah Umno convention divisions meeting at a hotel in Putatan near here.
Ahmad Zahid, who is also the Rural and Regional Development Minister, said that the Chinese government had offered to sponsor 2,000 TVET students from Malaysia to study in China on full scholarships.
He said out of that quota, 500 students would be from Sabah.
Meanwhile, he said Majlis Amanah Rakyat, which is under the ministry, had appointed Umno division chiefs and representatives to become coordinators which they could bring youngsters to join the TVET programmes.
To date, there are 1,345 TVET institutes in the country.