Two International experts in aircraft maintenance have shown willingness to partner with Zambia in training the country’s aviation students participating at the 2017 World skills International (WSI) Championship in Dubai.
The two are Canada’s Aerospace Industry Advisor Richard Johnstone and Finland’s Savo Vocational College Quality Manager and Instructor Aircraft Maintenance Training Seppo Huittinen.
Mr. Johnstone and Mr. Huittinen expressed willingness to work with the Zambia Air Services Training Institute (ZASTI), through Worldskills Zambia in offering expert training to the tutors and students, once all the logistics were in place.
The two expressed willingness during a meeting with Zambian engineer Mr. Francis Mwape in Sao Paulo, Brazil yesterday.
This is contained in a statement issued to ZANIS in Lusaka today by First Secretary for Press at the Embassy of the Republic of Zambia to Brazil Patson Chilemba.
Engineer Mwape is a technical delegate and holds one of the two official positions in WSI for a member country.
He also initiated the idea of Zambia joining the organization, upon which Worldskills Zambia , was birthed.
And Mr. Johnstone, who is also leading Canada’s World skills team, said there was still enough time to train some Zambian students to participate in the next world championship in aircraft maintenance.
He said this is in an effort to increase the categories for the country’s participation in the competitions.
Zambia, which is a new member to WSI, is only participating in the three categories of Bricklaying, concrete technology and carpentry out of the 50 disciplines being competed for.
How is this news?
@jayjay, all you want is politics or what?
I think the development is welcome in that usually when we want to do aircraft maintenance we call people from outside like South Africa and the like.