Thailand
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Department of Skills Development
Key responsibilities of this Department of the Ministry of Labour cover skill standards setting, skill development, skilled labour potentials development to attain international standards, and promotion of entrepreneurialship that is competitive in the global market. The English version of the site provides a list of Skills Development Centers.
The English version of the site gives information on the following training programme categories: Pre-Employment, Skill Upgrade, Skill Supplement, Entrepreneur, By Act, By Agreement, HRD in Establishment.
The website has education and training statistics and a High Qualified Manpower Survey online.
Office of the Non-Formal Education Commission (ONFEC)
Office of the Non-Formal Education Commission (ONFEC), one of the administrative units under the Office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, provides and supports the services of nonformal and informal education to promote lifelong learning among the out-of-school target groups and those having completed basic and higher education to make them obtain lifelong learning continuously with systematic learning process that truly enable them to search for knowledge and to apply it in their real life. The website describes its programs and activities in basic education, vocational education and skills training, and information services.
Thailand Productivity Institute
This institute under the Ministry of Industry provides a variety of training services, but only the menus of the website are in English.