An external and independent Mid Term Review (MTR) of the support to Technical Educational and Vocational Training (TVET) in the country was taken in the presence of two experts from European Union in Ministry of ET&SHE.
The objective of the MTR was to access implementation of the project in terms of relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact to-date, sustainability and replication of the activities that have undertaken, said a press release.
The Minister said that PM Youth Skill Development Programme will train twenty five thousand youth with skill to work with dignity in the international market.
He further told the experts though after 18th Amendment in Constitution, education was devolved to provinces, yet Technical and Vocational Training came under the purview of the Federal Government.
He said the plan of the government to establish technical board with a supervisory role to ascertain the equivalence, as all the provinces have their technical boards.
It does not mean to undermine the role of the provincial technical boards but to provide the students and the employer better understanding about the credentials of the applicant, he added.
He said in Pakistan vocational training is less than one percent of our education which we want to take up to fifteen percent.
The Minister stressed upon the need of public private partnership as this cost much less with much better quality.
He said that the government planed to have technical high schools which must be role models for the provinces.
He also briefed them about the teachers training programme at AEPAM. He also told them about the plan of the government to establish a technical university.
The delegates from the European Union expressed satisfaction and lauded the efforts of the government initiatives of skill development programmes.