Chairman, National Vocational & Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC), Javed Hassan has said that the commission under Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) reforms is working on a plan to take the capacity of skill training to at least one million youth in next two or three years.
Talking to media here during his visit to the provincial metropolis, he said that presently 4.5 million children in the country are out of schools and the country is required 2.5 million skilled manpower as compared to the existing capacity of the vocational and technical educational institutes is merely 0.4 million.
He said that the sector was miserably ignored in past, but now the government, employers, trade unions and education and training providers will treat and skills development more seriously than they have in past and give greater priority to TVET in making decisions and investments and the allocation of funds. For the purpose, he said more training opportunities will be created and one million quality training places will be created each year and by 2025, one in four school leavers will be able to get an apprenticeship or join a training programme.
Under the policy, a national quality-based system will be introduced. And training programmes that will lead to a national qualification will be available throughout the country and learners / trainees will be assessed or tested in the same ways. Similarly, a competency based training system will also be introduced that emphasizes that a person needs to do a job. The emphasis is on what a person can do, rather than what she/he knows. The NAVTTC, TEVTAs and other ministries are jointly working for the building of capacity and improvement in the standard of training. For the achievement of the goal, he said that world recognized Competency Based Training and Assessment (CBT&A) strategy has been introduced in the technical and vocational educational institutes under which beside theory, market oriented practical work is also been taught to the students.