Skills Development: Vocational Education
in the Islamic Countries
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the vocational education and trainingwhichwill ease the initiatives towards poverty eradication
from OIC member countries. The research report was constructed from extensive dialogue and
consultations with officials of TVET sectors, employers, academicians and other stakeholders
from three OIC member countries, namely Bangladesh, Palestine and Uganda, and also
accumulated insights from documents and prior authentic literature. This summary presents a
synopsis of the report and highlights key findings, challenges and possible recommendations
which are discussed in the following sections. This report is organized as below:
Chapter 1, Conceptual framework, is mainly concernedwith providing a conceptual derivation
about the current status of vocational education and its impact on skills development in any
country. The chapter includes the importance of vocational education for eradicating poverty
from young people of poor socio-economic background. It further provides information of how
the donor agencies may contribute towards improving vocational education.
Chapter 2, Methodology, focuses on mixedmethod approach to address the research questions.
More specifically, this chapter discuses both quantitative and qualitative approaches tosolve the
research questions by using data collection tools and analysing relevant documents.
Chapters 3 to 5 present the results of this study. More specifically, Chapter 3, 4 and 5 discuss
about case of Bangladesh, Palestine and Uganda respectively. Chapter 6 presents the overall
scenario of TVET sectors of Australia as an example from developed countries. Chapter 7,
Comparison, discusses about the comparison among case studies of selected countries. This
chapter also presents the relationships among industries and TVET institutions in OIC member
states.
The discussions, recommendations, conclusions are presented in Chapter 8 . This chapter is
structured into three main sections. The first section discusses the recommendations of the
study based on empirical findings; the second section describes the implementing authorities
(regulatory framework) of stated recommendations, The third section presents the conclusion
of this study focusing on challenges of TVET sectors and the future research areas respectively.