HIDA Journal 2015 AUTUMN No.7

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12　HIDA JOURNAL In July 2014, a management organization for an engineer training school in Myanmar established a vocational training class related to electrical work in Yangon, Myanmar through the cooperation of Japanese companies. This vocational training course, which was named the Sakura-Insein Technical Course, was established through the support of the Myanmar Association of Government Technical Institute (AGTI), Kinden Corporation, and Sumitomo Corporation, with the goal of training electrical engineers in Myanmar. It has been gaining attention as a new initiative aimed at improving the delayed infrastructural improvements for things like electricity, as well as lack of skilled engineers, which are challenges in the country. AGTI is a mutual aid organization of former teaching faculty and graduates from the Government Technical Institute (GTI), which is an educational institution for engineering with a history that goes back more than 100 years in Myanmar. It is managing this course by remodeling part of the former GTI Insein Campus, which is located about one hour by car north of the Yangon metropolitan area. Two courses were set up: the Energy Transmission Course and the General Interior Wiring Electricity Course. There are various different curricula that serve as condensed, hands-on programs including everything from physical training in the basics of electrical work to lectures on calculating electricity and electricity basic theory, training in pole construction and pole climbing, as well as practical training and onsite training with overhead wiring work, ductwork and wiring work, and hardwiring electric lights and motor circuits. As such, six Myanmar instructors responsible for managing this received training in Japan via HIDA programs aimed at instructors of the course. From the outset of the consultations between Kinden Corporation and AGTI concerning training electrical engineers in Myanmar that began around the start of 2013, there was the shared recognition among both parties that Myanmar instructors should be the ones providing vocational education to Myanmar students. Therefore, before offering the course, candidates for Myanmar instructors were openly recruited, from which six people were selected. In order to instill in them skills as instructors for the vocational education and training program for electrical work, these people came to Japan in August 2013 as technical trainees through HIDA’s training in Japan as part of its ODA-funded Programs. The six of them went through six weeks of introductory training* at HIDA’s Tokyo Kenshu Center. Afterwards, they took instructor training courses where they learned things like practical matters for electrical work for roughly six months at Kinden Gakuen (Training Center; located in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture), which is an in-house education and training facility for Kinden Corporation, to advance the preparations for offering the Sakura-Insein Technical Course. Mr. Kyaw Myo Thwin is one of the six ex-participants from the HIDA training. He reected back on his experiences in Japan, saying, “What stands out most in my mind from the introductory training was the teaching method for each class. I am now following the teaching style with two-way interaction between teachers and students, which is not used in Myanmar, in the classroom settings. Moreover, the Japanese and communication skills I learned during the introductory training, as well as the rules and etiquette for living in Japan, were enormously helpful in my specialized technical training thereafter.” Similarly, Mr. Kyaw Htike had this to say: “For me, the most impressive thing was the Japanese factory that we toured during the introductory training. In addition, since we had lectures concerning the characteristics of Japanese companies, this enabled us to smoothly acquire knowledge and skills related to wiring practice, classroom learning on theory, and guidelines for instructors during the specialized technical training.” ＊Group training for learning the Japanese language and about Japanese society and culture at a HIDA Kenshu Center―――――――――――――――――――――――――――A total of 38 students graduated from the first semester courses, which nished in March 2015, and at present many of the graduates have started working in workplaces where they can harness the knowledge and skills they acquired in this vocational training course. What is more, a total of 26 students, including the first female students, are taking part in the two courses of the Energy Transmission Course and the General Interior Wiring Electricity Course as part of the second semester courses that began in April 2015. Additionally, in the first fiscal year the courses were run by sending Japanese instructors from Kinden Corporation to the local region to provide support as needed, but for the second semester onwards they are creating a structure in which they can handle this solely with Myanmar instructors. As such, they are working to address HR development for strengthening electrical infrastructure in Myanmar based on the initial policy of developing industrial human resources in Myanmar through Myanmar instructors. Ex-participants from Myanmar Serving as Instructors for Local Vocational Training ClassesProgram Supporting the Development of Myanmar Electrical Engineers through Technical Support from Kinden CorporationA scene from a lectureA scene from the electrical transmission practical skills trainingA scene from the general interior wiring practical skills training

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