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THEME 3: Challenges inTVETsector inBangladesh
Despite these initiatives, the TVET sector is still facing many challenges to ensure quality
education and to attract poor people particularly. Few challenges were drawn from
interview data.
 TVET sector has lack of facilities, such as modern equipment, lab, machineries for
offering updated skill training
 Social value of TVET graduates is still a challenge in Bangladesh. Graduates of
TVET sectors in Bangladesh are not getting proper recognition in both working
place and in their social life.
 General people awareness towards TVET sectors is still very low and therefore,
TVET sectors will not be able to attract many people
 The standard of TVET sectors and its current curriculum are not up-to-date to
meet the international standard
 There is a lack of industrial linkage with TVET institution
The above challenges are supported by the following interview data:
“The facilities in our technical education like lab, machineries are insufficient for skill
trainings. Our labs are not equipped with modern machineries and linkage between
industry and institution is another big challenge for us. Nevertheless, we are working to
improve the condition but it is really a very big challenge for us. Standard of our
technical education does not match with global standard and we still remain at a local
standard level. We failed to improve our policy and curriculum in accordance to
international level”. (P6)
“There should be an attractive salary range for employed TVET graduates. I told in an
interview, why the doctor and the nurse salary will be different. That means their
profession can be differed but salary range should be same. Then everyone will attract
for any profession. This has an effect on technical education. Income of a diploma
engineer should be higher than a non-technical person”. (P4)
Figure 3.10: Current Challenges faced by TVET sectors
Challanges
Lack of Facilities
Less Social Value
Old Curriculum
Lack of Industrial
Linkage
Attract Less People