German envoy stresses on sustaining skills development
KARACHI: Consul General of Germany in Karachi, Holger Ziegeler while assuring of continued support for technical and vocational education and training, urged the government and private sector to ensure sustainability in skills development for more job opportunities, which lead to economic stability. He was talking at a ceremony ‘Showcasing of TVET Reforms in Sindh and […]
Chairman TEVTA visits Centre of Excellence, Lahore
LAHORE: Chairperson TEVTA Ali Salman Siddique on Monday visited TEVTA Center of Excellence, Staff Training and Technical Training Center, Mughalpura, Lahore. He was accompanied by relevant officers including Regional Coordinator Punjab Faisal Mahmood and Principal Technical Training Institute Najamul Hassan. Project Director Syed Asif Munir welcomed the guests and gave a briefing on the project. […]
Quality Technical Education: TEVTA Chairman for Establishing Modern Labs
LAHORE: Chairman Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) Ali Salman Siddique called for establishing modern labs for imparting quality technical education. While talking to Business Recorder Ali Salman said that the world focus on giving technical education to their youth while in Pakistan majority of the students were enrolled in general education. Punjab has […]
First Lady Emphasise Women Empowerment Through Vocational Training
KARACHI: First Lady Samina Alvi stressed the need for the empowerment of women through vocational training programmes to help them meet their financial needs. Visiting the Government Polytechnic Institute for Women in Sukkur on Tuesday, Alvi said the government was striving to provide relief to the downtrodden segments of the society since the day it […]
University education in Pakistan may be adding less value to society than we think
It is axiomatic among policymakers that one of the most valuable investments that a state can make is to develop its human capital. This can be done through schooling and university education, skills and vocational training, investment in healthcare, and inculcation of social skills such as punctuality and good citizenship. The economist Gary Becker’s human […]
Reintegrating returning migrants
Returning migrants require guidance, counselling, training and supervision to become an effective part of the society The world continues to witness changes in important aspects of people’s lives since being hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. Many countries, developed as well as under-developed, have experienced mass lay-offs because both the public and private sectors face unprecedented […]
Meeting held to evaluating 4Ps of Skills Education
A meeting to brainstorm the future of skills education in the context of 4Ps (possibilities, problems, partners, and platforms) identified multidisciplinary approaches to cope with the incoming robotics/digital world. The participants strongly believed that all manual tasks performed today will be conducted by machines utilizing artificial intelligence in the foreseeable future. However, human involvement will […]
Govt aims to train one million youth in hi-tech skills
ISLAMABAD: The PTI government is making plans to train one-million youth over the next few years with an increased focus on high-tech skills, while a PC-1 for the second phase of the programme will be worked out within this month, The News learnt on Friday. “The government has so far provided skills to 125,000 youth in […]
Bringing TVET reforms through skills for gender mainstreaming
LAHORE: The Punjab Vocational Training Council (PVTC) in collaboration with the European Union (EU), German and Norwegian government funded Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Sector Support Programme organized a seminar on “Breaking the Bias; Harnessing Digitalization in TVET for Women” on the occasion of Internal Women’s Day at its head office in Lahore. The […]
Shafqat Mahmood inaugurates NAVTTC Centre of Excellence
ISLAMABAD, Mar 25 (APP):Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mahmood on Friday inaugurated the NAVTTC Centre of Excellence in Modern Technologies at National Vocational and Technical Training Commission, Islamabad. The center has been established by National Vocational and Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC) with the cooperation of GIZ, European Union, Norway and Germany. Speaking […]