Engineering Post Report
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) offers the shortest and the swiftest path to productive youth engagement.
Unfortunately, TVET sector in Pakistan has suffered from systematic ailments including limited training capacity, outdated workshops and laboratories, obsolete training equipment, archaic teaching methods and antiquated curricula and as such was grossly incapacitated to meet the skill training needs of domestic and international markets in terms of both quantity and quality.
National Vocational and Technical Training Commission ( NAVTTC) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Professional Training have developed a broader framework to uplift TVET sector in the country.
According to the available information, the roadmap emphasizes on increasing training opportunities for young people as well as re-skilling the existing workers, implementing the National Vocational Qualification Framework and Competency Based Training and Assessment, bridging demand and supply gap of skilled workforce in the country, introducing High-Tech /High-End Training Programmes, bringing Madrassahs ( institutions imparting religious education) and general education into TVET stream.
The ultimate objective of this comprehensive roadmap and National TVET Policy is to to streamline TVET sector and create competent, motivated, entrepreneurial , adaptable and creative skilled workforce as per demand of the local and international skill demand for workforce.
National Vocational and Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC) has taken a number of initiatives to address qualitative and quantitative disparities in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sector in the country.
These along with initiatives by NAVTTC will be dilated upon in some details in the next issue, please.
