The cabinet, in a meeting today, has decided to establish Maldives Polytechnic, to be run under a corporate policy.
The cabinet made this decision after discussing a paper submitted by the Ministry of Education.
With the establishment of Maldives Polytechnic, all the programmes that were run by the Maldives Institute of Vocational Education Training (MIVET), and all the courses below undergraduate level at the Faculty of Engineering Technology, will be provided by Maldives Polytechnic.
The objective of establishing Maldives Polytechnic is to produce skilled workers, train youths seeking jobs, and reduce expatriate workers.
