Information Series on TVET -Part 1
Mukta Verma
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What is TVET??
TVET means Technical & Vocational Education & Training. It encompasses educational or training activities related to world of work. It is also called workforce education or vocational education or technical-vocational education or occupational education or career & technical education
The purpose of TVET is to prepare learners for the work or a job. It involves development of work related skill & mastery of underlying knowledge & theories. It also involves continuing professional development needed to develop new skill for progression in a job or development of a skill for changing needs of job market due to technological advancement or related modes of job at all levels. The upward differentiation of TVET from 1st level to 2nd level to 3rd level of education to preparing knowledge workers, has been an important development in late 20th to 21st century
TVET programme/qualification can be differentiated by education & training needed for the work that has a largely intellectual component or for the work that is highly practical & requires individual to work with hands than their head.
TVET facilitates economic growth by development of personal capacities & increasing the productivity