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VOCATIONAL TRAINING: Enhancing The Reach Ananya .S. Guha Officer on Special Duty, IGNOU Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Shillong, INDIA. Categories of Vocational Training:
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VOCATIONAL TRAINING:Enhancing The ReachAnanya .S. GuhaOfficer on Special Duty,IGNOU Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Shillong, INDIA
Categories of Vocational Training: 1. Technical Vocational Skills, auto mobile repair, weaving, repair of gadgets and instruments such as mobile phones and computers, electrical repairs, tailoring, printing etc. 2. Inservice vocational skills for managers, teachers, media persons. 3. Aesthetics vocational skills such as artisanship, making of musical instruments, fine arts, and performing arts especially related to indigenity.
4. General vocational skills such as public speaking, personality development, writing skills etc. 5. Vocational skills for the physically and mentally challenged. 6. Vocational skills for domestic workers. 7. Vocational skills for disadvantaged sections such as women and tribals. 8. Vocational skills for unorganized sector: marketing, production and retailing.
9. Vocational skills for dropouts and street children. 10. Special vocational skills for the educated unemployed 11. Vocational skills related to indigenous production and aesthetics. 12. Vocational skills in agriculture. 13. IT vocational skills. 14. Communication/soft skills. 15. Vocational skills related to Emergency Services and Disaster Management – ‘Living Intelligently With Floods’; low cost house making with bamboos etc.
Vocational Education & Vocational Training. • Leading to Skill Development. • Working out various levels; from trades to expressions of creativity.
Vocational Education/Training & CSR – the industry academia alliance. • Vocational Training & Indigenous knowledge: Connection between the two. • Kinds of training programmes the IIVET i.e. the IGNOU Institute for Vocational Education and Training; has done till date, the following are some
Taking the cue from: “National Policy on Skills Development 2008”. • The world of work & the world of education: - Know - Do - Be - Live Together (Delors 1996).
Collaborations are a must! • How does a National Open University (like ours) look at Vocational Training – certification, prior knowledge/ learning, common services centres/telecentres etc.