Vocational Training

Vocational education is based on occupation and employment. Vocational education is education that prepares people for specific trades, crafts and careers at various levels from a trade, a craft, technician, or a professional position in engineering, accountancy, nursing, medicine, architecture, pharmacy, law etc. Craft vocations are usually based on manual or practical activities, traditionally non-academic, related to a specific trade, occupation, or vocation.

Vocational education may be classified as teaching procedural knowledge Increasingly, vocational education can be recognized in terms of recognition of prior learning and partial academic credit towards tertiary education (e.g., at a university) as credit; however, it is rarely considered in its own form to fall under the traditional definition of higher education.

Vocational education has diversified over the 20th century and now exists in industries such as retail, tourism, information technology, funeral services and cosmetics, as well as in the traditional crafts and cottage industries.

Vocational training in India is provided on a full-time as well as part-time basis. Full-time programs are generally offered through I.T.I.s industrial training institutes. The nodal agency for grant the recognition to the I.T.I.s is NCVT which is under the Min. of labor, Govt. of India. Part-time programs are offered through state technical education boards or universities who also offer full-time courses. Vocational training has been successful in India only in industrial training institutes and that too in engineering trades.

There are many private institutes in India which offer courses in vocational training and finishing, but most of them have not been recognized by the Government. India is a pioneer in vocational training in Film & Television, and Information Technology. AFT. Maharashtra State Government also offered vocational Diplomas in various Trades.

Vocational Higher Secondary schools are under MHRD in India. All the state governments run vocational schools. In kerala state 389 vocational schools are there with 42 different courses. Commerce & Business, Tourism, Agriculture, Automobile, Air conditioning, Live stock management, Lab Technician are some prominent courses.

In India vocational training also runs on private and on the NGO’s basis. Disables were given this training to make them capable to earn their livings. Vocational training given to these disables was like making candles, knitting, sewing, incense sticks,  paintings, etc. which they can do. These can help them to make them earn in this world. Various kinds of disables can do different kinds of work according to their disability.

Vocational training is must in rehabilitation. Complete rehabilitation means to prepare a disable into a capable person and execute in outside world.