The students enrolled in engineering, polytechnic and other colleges will now be able to pursue vocational courses from All India Institute of Technical Education (AICTE).
As per the scheme, the courses proposed to be offered will be industry oriented. The program will offer vocational courses in media, information technology, telecommunications, entertainment, mobile communications, construction, automobile, retail, tourism, food processing, jewellery designing, hotels and fashion designing. Since the courses belong to specific sectors, the institute will tie up with respective industries to offer vocational education to the candidates.
HRD Minister Kapil Sibal while introducing the National Vocational Educational Qualification Curriculum announced that the ministry will soon shortlist the industries or their associates to introduce the program.
The AICTE will be responsible for providing the required statutory approvals to the institutions interested in organizing these programs across India. The institutions can select a total of 500 candidates in any 5 sectors with 100 participants in each sector.
The scheme proposes 7 levels where each certificate level will offer a course of about 1000 hours duration. In this 1000 hours course, some time will be allotted for vocational competency based skill sets and the remaining for regular learning leading to a diploma for vocational courses. After completing the certificate level 5, participants will become eligible for a degree in vocational courses.
The minimum qualification required to take up vocational course is class X. There is no age limit. The scheme will also be introduced in schools with the 1st level beginning from classIX at a later stage.
Under this scheme, students will be allowed to opt for a competency based skill learning besides general learning without changing the course and shifting at any certificate level to a regular education system and vice versa. The aim is to make a complete multi-entry exist system between formal education system, vocational education and the job market.
As per the ministry, if even 1/3rd of the institutes are approved to offer the programs then the aim is to offer the program to a minimum of 5 million students every year for vocational courses and diplomas which will provide self employment or a significant employment.
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