Skills Development: Vocational Education
in the Islamic Countries
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percent free for male students in TVET sectors. Besides, stipend is provided to poor people for
their livings. All the participants supported this:
“Government provides 100% free education for girls with 800 TK scholarship per
month. There is quota and condition applied for boys’ scholarship. They (boys) have to
come from poor families”.(P1)
Job placement: In order to ensure employment for graduates of TVET sectors, the government
has instructed to open Job placement centre which will assist graduates to get suitable
employment after their skilled training.
“There was no job placement cell in the TVET institutes before, but government form a
policy of job placement in every institute. We have job placement officer and job placement
cell in our institute. The duty of job placement officer is to search job for the graduates of
our institute” (P3)
Quality Education: In order to ensure effective skilled manpower, quality teaching and training
is utmost important. Therefore, government has taken many initiatives towards ensuring this.
For instance, (i) teachers of TVET sectors are being sent for professional development programs
in national and international level, (ii) recently, modern facilities and machineries are trying to
be installed in many institutions, (iii), a number of students are being sent abroad to acquire
recent knowledge and skills.
“STEP project sends polytechnic teachers for overseas training. This training changes
teachers’ attitude and knowledge. They [STEP] also provide us new equipment from
their own fund. There are many training going on under this project within the
country. Average 10 teachers from polytechnic go for their training per month”. (P4)
Another participant highlighted these issues more elaborately:
“Government takes step for developing an effective education system, which will
contain most modern facilities and equipment. Foreign collaboration is increasing
these days. Such as, China collaborates with us and provides skill training for 300 of
our students. Many technical institutes from Hunan province of China signed
preliminary MoU with our STEP project. They agreed with us for exchanging student,
teacher and technical facilities”. (P6)
Figure 3.9: Government initiatives (GI) towards improving TVET
Free
Education
&
Scholarship
Expansion
of TVET
Job
Placement
Quality
Education
GI