Skills Development: Vocational Education
in the Islamic Countries
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SEIP project conducted a study under “Labour Market and Skill Gap in Bangladesh” which
categorized one macro level and ninemicro level priority sectors namely:
1. Macro Level Area
2. Micro Level Area
a) Garments Sector
b) Construction Sector
c) Light Engineering Sector
d) ICT Sector
e) Shipbuilding Sector
f) Leather Goods Sector
g) Hospitality and Tourism Sector
h) Health Care (Nursing and Health Technician)
i) Agro-food sector
This study reported that workers in the industry are divided into three types in Bangladesh:
In Bangladesh, a huge number of workers are working in different industries (both Macro and
Micro) without having proper training and in many cases they do not have any educational
background. Recent research reported that 21.3% of total labour forces do not have any
education and 28.7% of them have primary education background (Source: BIDS, 2017). Most
importantly, a huge no of workers (labour force) in Bangladesh are working in the industries
without having any prior training. For instance, the current finding report that 90.9% of total
labour forces are not trained in the existing Industries (See Table 3.14). The total picture of
trained and untrained number ofworkforces in all industries in Bangladesh is shown Table 3.14
Skilled:They canperformmore than one function
without supervision
Semi-skilled: They canperformonly one ocupation
without supervision
Unskilled: They Need close supervision to perform
any operation and do not have experience of any
skilled/semi-skilled job