The Vocational Training Corporation was established according to Temporary Law No. (35) of (1976) as one of the five-year Development Projects plan in the (1976-1980) with the aim of expanding the preparation of the trained workforce and organizing the labor market. It started its work in 1977. The Vocational Training Corporation is currently operating under the permanent law of the Vocational Training Corporation Law No. (11) of (1985) and its amendments for the year 2001.

The Vocational Training Corporation provides its services to all citizens at all levels of education from the principle of continuous education and lifelong learning, whether that is vocational preparation programs at their various levels, or programs to upgrade the efficiency of workers practicing in the labor market, and the VTC also provides training and consulting services in the field of occupational safety and health to reduce accidents in work sites. The VTC provides training of trainers and supervisors in the behavioral and administrative aspects, and developing the work of small and medium enterprises.

Vocational training is an urgent necessity to meet the needs of the labor market of technicians. Human education and training have received sufficient attention from the Jordanian state since its inception, and this has been evident in the Letters of Assignment to successive governments, in Throne Speeches and in discussion papers of His Majesty King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein.

VTC in Figures
Number of institutes is (35) institutes in all governorates, and the number of training sites is (43) sites.

• Number of workshops is (348).
• Number of institutes for females is (10).
• Number of institutes equipped for the disabled is (13).
• The tainting capacity is (10,000) and the operating capacity is (20,000).
• Number of occupational families is (19).
• Number of applied specializations is (100).
• Number of employees is (1245).
• Number of graduates so far exceeds (400,000) trainees and female trainees is (32%).
• The employment rate is about (61%) and in some sectors it exceeds 95%.

VTC Training Programs

• Basic Skills Level:  These training programs prepare trainees for three levels (craftsman, skilled and semi-skilled) and Vocational and Technical Diploma Programs to be qualified to enter the labor market and provide them with knowledge, skills, attitudes, and life skills. This includes level I training programs.
• Technical Upgrading Programs: These are technical training programs that aim at upgrading workers skills in their occupations within one of the basic levels and/or from one level to the next.
• Short Courses and Local Society Service: Short training courses that are not classified within basic work levels, and that are delivered for the local community.
• Occupational Safety and Health Training Programs: Training programs are aimed at training workers who are employed in both the public and the private sectors and upgrading their technical skills in the field of OSH.

Training of Trainers and Supervisors, these include Training of Trainers and Training of Supervises.

Vocational Training Corporation (VTC) Training Patterns

The VTC changed the training pattern in Jordan from the institutional training that was practiced in Vocational Schools in the Ministry of Education, to a new type of training based on training in the workplace to provide trainees with the performance skills necessary to practice work, as the VTC expanded by providing its services in all governorates of the Kingdom to serve industrial and population gatherings and civil society institutions. Training in the VTC can be found in the following types:

First: Institutional Training

Training of trainees within the workshops and institutes of the VTC to provide them with performance skills and related occupational knowledge and behavioral trends. One drawback for this pattern is that the trainees are trained inside the training institute, in addition to the training facilities that are also designated for the purposes of training, and not in real work environment.

Second: On-job Training

It is the training pattern that is mainly based on training the trainees in the workplace and in the facilities and conditions of real work production to provide and equip the trainees with the performance skills and behavioral trends for a specific work, which is described as on-the-job training and this pattern is one of the preferred patterns for some occupations such as food service, room service, or other occupations that refine the trainee's skills and develop them through his work in these sites, and the pattern of training in the workplace represents an opportunity for the trainees to train for work for which training institutions do not provide; besides there are no training opportunities or programs inside these institutions. This type of training is carried out by involving the trainee for a period of preparation on life skills and interrelationships i.e. (communication skills, teamwork, dealing with managers and subordinates) and then sends the trainee to work sites to acquire the required skills and behavioral trends in addition to theoretical information.

Third: Dual System

The VTC uses this system in programs intended for its three main levels semi- skilled, skilled and craftsman. The teaching and learning process combines the training processes that take place in the institutes and training in the factories of the industrial sector. As for the supervision of the trainees in the training sites in the industrial sector, the trainers carry out this task. However, there are no reliable guidelines for assessing the knowledge and skills that the trainees have acquired while in a non-educational environment in an industrial workshop.