The General Organization for Technical Education and Vocational Training (GOTEVOT), in association with General Motors, plans to establish 100 automobile training institutes in various parts of the Kingdom. "We have already reached an agreement with General Motors and we are now working out training programs and recruiting trainers," said Dr. Ali Al-Ghafees, the organization's governor. He said GOTEVOT had concluded another agreement with Alsalam Aircraft Company to establish an institute for aircraft maintenance. "We are now finalizing this project," Al-Madinah Arabic daily quoted Al-Ghafees as saying. The organization intends to open another institute for construction industry in Riyadh in cooperation with Saudi Oger. Saudi Binladen has already begun setting up a similar institute in Jeddah, and Prince Abdul-Majeed Bin Abdul-Aziz has laid the project's cornerstone. "These new projects highlight the growing cooperation between the government and the private sector in setting up institutes to train Saudis for technical and mechanical jobs," Ghafees said. --MORE 1115 Local Time 0815 GMT
