上海市女职工周末学校自1996年开课以来的两年间,取得了令人意想不到的发展。到目前为止,已成立各级分校250多所,去年一年共培训女职工超过13万人,被舆论称为全市最大一所“没有围墙”的学校。上海市女职工周末学校从成立伊始就把帮助下岗女职工提高就业技能放在首要位置,它的口号是让全市女职工都能“精一门、会两门、学三门”。去年,上海市女职工周末学校共举办各类培训班1300多个,培训下岗女职工2.8万人。由于开设的绝大部分属于针对性强的技能培训课程,有7000多名女职工经培训后走上了新的工作岗位。更为可喜的是,参加周末学校培训的女职工,大部分获得了劳动部门认可的专业技能证书。不少学员还通过了两门以上考核,仅据商业、公用事业、纺织 Shanghai Women Workers’ Weekend School has achieved an unexpected development in the two years since it started in 1996. So far, more than 250 branch schools have been set up. Last year, a total of more than 130,000 women workers were trained and the public was called the largest one in the city without walls. Shanghai Women’s Weekend School has put the help of laid-off women workers in improving employment skills at the top of the agenda since its inception. Its slogan is to enable all the city’s women workers to “work hard, learn two, and learn three.” Last year, the Shanghai Women’s Workers’ Weekend School held more than 1,300 training courses of all kinds and trained 28,000 laid-off women workers. Since the vast majority of the training courses were targeted, more than 7,000 women workers were trained to embark on new jobs. Even more gratifying is that the majority of women workers attending weekends school training received professional skills certificates recognized by the labor department. Many students also passed two or more examinations, only according to commercial, public utilities, textile