THE RISING HORIZONS OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION: Facts & Ideology.
Vocational Education has always been a source of empowerment, not only to our country's economy, but also it has been supplementing to maintain trade, culture, traditions and technology of our country. As far as Vocational Education in Technology is concerned, it has always been dependent upon the the technologies of the developed countries, yet we are the pioneers in our tradition, cultural skills. However now in the glowing era of human resource, many new dimensions for Vocational Education have rose up and it's time for us to adapt, introduce and implement such trends.
With the current trends in Vocational Education and Training (VET), there has to be a very strong interaction between the Vocational training institutions and Industries. Vocational institutions need to be more passionate over meeting the Board of Management of Industries as a need of time. A strong bridge needs to be built between the Management of Vocational institutions and the Board of Management of the Industries. The most convincing point here would be that, today, Industries are in desperate need of not only vocationally qualified human resource, but they also need an academically qualified candidate with an excellence of Soft-Skills.
We seek new 'Horizons' towards the ideology of " Skill Development", adapting the technological trends will however be the foremost challenge. It is important for candidates and Vocational institutions to compete with with the global technical standards. For instance, while imparting vocational education it is important to concentrate on the candidate's overall performance, not only in vocational skills but also into 'Soft-Skills'. This will help the candidate to sustain and compete with the industrial world. The Vocational institutes needs to keep their faculties updated with the changing time.
The candidates seeking Vocational education from such institutions needs to be imparted with the following skills:
- Behavioral skills.
- Marketing skills.
- Spoken skills.
- Netiquettes.
5. Overall management skills such as:
- Time Management Skills.
- Quality Management skills.
- Infrastructure Management skills.
- Transport Management skills.
- Marketing Management skills.
- Cost & Estimate Management skills.
- Finance Management skills.
- Stress Management skills.
The Industrial and labor market clearly tends indicate the need for strengthening the Vocational Education in India.
The present study on the issues in the Indian Vocational Education and Training (VET) has been undertaken, at a time when our country faces both, opportunities and challenges in India's growth study. The challenges are basically in the Skill-gaps- hardly 2 percent of the Indian workforce has formally acquired skills, and another 2.4 percent some technical education.It is estimated that nearly 291 million workers are required to be skilled by the year 2022 in India in different trades. This is if India has to be a 'Leading Manufacturing Economy' in the world. he Primary survey shows that 36 firms out of 43 revealed that they were facing some sort of skill related problems, both in number as well as quality. Smaller companies are facing major shortage of skilled reliable persons, while large companies are facing quality related problems. (Courtesy-www.iamrindia.gov.in)
The Vocational institutions are in need to strictly be analytical and should monitor, maintain, evaluate and record the candidate's progress in the 'Skill and competence. On completion of such a training of the candidate, the institution should take moral responsibility to see the whereabouts of the candidates and his data should be maintained and monitored as a part of feedback. This should be continued till he is into the employment or self-employment scenario.
So, Friends we need to decide whether vocational education training institutions are just a profit making sources, or they are also a healthy ideological resource to provide the best of human resource to promote skill development for our country.
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