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Islamabad, May 21, 2013 (PPI-OT): Executive Director National Vocational and Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC) Rashid Bashir Mazari has said that Foreign Countries are going to clamp down on Un-Accredited, Un-Licensed and Un-Certified Labour by 2015. At Present this is the big Challenge to NAVTTC and TEVTAs to make the whole workforce accredited, licensed and certified.
NAVTTC is trying to create uniformity in the systems and procedures so the workforce produced in all vocations across Pakistan can develop core competencies in accordance with minimum International Acceptable Standards, the Executive director said.
Our youth is our priority, we want to divert the talent into constructive and productive activities before they fall prey to the destructive elements of terrorism, crime and aggression. Our priority areas are the most poor and backward so we can uplift the lives of people in these areas; he said this while opening the One Day Orientation Session for Assessors and Experts regarding accreditation process of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutes all over the country.
He said that remittances are the backbone of our economy but the challenge to NAVTTC are that UAE, Saudi Arabia, EU and other countries are not going to employ uncertified, unlicensed and unaccredited workforce from 2015 onwards.
Our Workforce is underpaid and underemployed in foreign countries. We want our workforce to get same minimum wages per hour like Sri Lankan or Philippines. Our slogan is skills for employability, skills for all.
We want to convert supply driven, outdated, in-competent TEVT Institutes into competent, demand driven up to the minimum acceptable International Standards. Therefore Accreditation is the only solution to create world class workforce.
Rashid Bashir Mazari has said that the objectives of this workshop are to Acquaint, Apprise and Explain our Accreditation System and procedures to our Experts and to build their Capacity in order to perform Trustworthy on site visits, knowing Competency Based Evaluation Criteria and applying it for compilation of Reliable Assessment Reports.
In this one day orientation session Accreditation Wing of NAVTTC apprised the participants about the procedures and system of accreditation as per Accreditation Manual of NAVTTC, Role of Assessors/Technical Experts in the accreditation process, How to conduct assessment/on-Site visit , Code of conduct during the visit, a practical activity to demonstrate your analytical skills, ToRs for Assessors/Technical Experts, Signing of Contract with NAVTTC and benefits for our Assessors/Experts and Discussions, Question and Answer sessions and experience sharing by our experts and team.
He said that this orientation session of Assessors and Technical Experts will help in enhancing the participants’ knowledge of Accreditation; create clarity about Accreditation process as per NAVTTC’s Accreditation Manual particularly conducting on-site visits.
It will develop a better understanding of the basic principles for Quality Evaluation and Reliable Assessment and at the end this session will motivate you to join NAVTTC’s pool of Experts. Earlier Executive Director NAVTTC in his opening speech, first of all, formally welcomed all the participants to this all-inclusive Orientation Session and Exhaustive Activity on Accreditation of TEVT Institutes and the role of Experts/Assessors in Accreditation Process.
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