TEVTA tailors courses to suit industries

Chairman claims students under its programmes are performing better than the rest


Our Correspondent November 23, 2017
TEVTA COO Jawad Ahmed Qureshi highlighted the authority’s efforts to provide opportunities to the youth to equip themselves with skills sought by industrial employers both domestic and foreign. PHOTO: NNI

LAHORE: TEVTA Chairman Irfan Qaiser Sheikh has said the authority was offering tailor-made courses to 32 companies, under the public private partnership, to fulfill the need of industries.

While talking to a delegation of Asian Development Bank (ADB) comprising Principal Education Specialist Norman La Rocque and Social Sector Specialist Munir Abro on Wednesday at the TEVTA Secretariat, Sheikh said the authority was following the model of public-private partnerships in Japan, Germany, Turkey and other developed countries. According to the partnership, private companies and industries asked TEVTA to train the youth as per demands and needs, he said.

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The chairman said that the term “tailor-made courses” was used for such programmes which were offered to industries’ request or demand. He informed the delegation that these short courses included programmes of the automobile, paint, steel, denim, packaging, bread, stitching and many others sectors which were running successfully.

Sheikh observed that when TEVTA started this programme, it asked the private sector for 100% assurance of the job provision which was the basic reason that it was running successfully across Punjab. “Several top organisations from different sectors were linked by this partnership,” he added. Sheikh vowed that they were trying to increase the number of companies and industries in this programme as they would benefit the youth.

He also stated TEVTA would start courses on agriculture as a large number of Pakistanis were linked to this industry and only a few organisations were working in this sector.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 23rd, 2017.

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