Competitive markets: New training approach for TVET institutes
The National Vocational and Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC) has devised a plan to introduce a competency-based training programme at selected technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutes across Pakistan.
The announcement was made on Tuesday at a workshop organised by NAVTTC, in collaboration with the TVET Reform Support Programme. Implementation of this new approach will start in September this year.
Speaking on the occasion, experts underlined the importance of competency-based training, saying the curriculum currently being implemented at TVET institutes has a limited link with the industry. As a result, trainees are unable to fulfil the needs of the job market.
With the new training approach, however, trainees will learn in a comparatively real workplace environment, as the industry will have a direct role to play in identifying the skills needed, designing the curriculum and assessing the trainees, explained an official involved with the new approach.
NAVTTC will conduct workshops in Karachi, Lahore and Muzaffarabad to complete the identification and selection of 60 institutes for the programme, and afterwards, it will be gradually replicated at all institutes in the country.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 16th, 2014.