New Dimensions of TVET with Innovation and Technopreneurship

Date: June 30, 2020 /
Program Type: Webinar /

Webinar Presentation/s

Innovation in TVET
by Ramhari Lamichhane, PhD

New Dimensions of TVET with Innovation and Technopreneurship
by HB Dayaratne

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Background

The webinar topic is New Dimensions of TVET with Innovation and Technopreneurship. Technopreneurship is to create or develop new products, business, market, processes or even services in a techy way. The term “tech” is all about technology from computers to anything. A technopreneur is basically an entrepreneur with both business and technical training background. A technopreneur applies technology and innovation as the business’ core operating model.

In referring to TVET graduates, by creating or inventing a new product, simply Technopreneurship helps them to be employed. Being the century of the age of information, a new idea combined with available opportunities and technological advancement can lead to making Technopreneurs. Only need is to tap in to the resources, think creatively and turn the idea into a business venture maximising the benefits of expanded global market, creating platforms to make better relationships, reduced costs and access to information.

It is obvious that one of the key requirements to be a Technopreneur is the ability to develop and offer something unique to the marketplace. This clearly depicts, Technopreneurship is directly associated with creativity. The World Economic Forum has identified Creativity as one of the top 3 skills required in the age of Industrial Revolution 4.0.

This paper discusses Creativity, Innovation and Invention, barriers to creativity, creativity process, how to improve creativity, the importance of Creativity in Technopreneurship and importance of including Creativity in TVET Curricula. It also discuss winning and best practices for Entrepreneurial success

Focus

This Webinar on “New Dimensions of TVET with Innovation and Technopreneurship” aims to provide an online training platform for CPSC member countries’ participants; to understand Creativity, Innovation and Invention, the importance of Creativity in Technopreneurship and importance of including Creativity in TVET Curricula.

Objective

To understand Creativity, Innovation and Invention, barriers to creativity, creativity process, how to improve creativity
To discuss the importance of Creativity in Technopreneurship, importance of including Creativity in TVET Curricula and winning and best practices for Entrepreneurial success

Career Counseling and Vocational Guidance Skills

Date: June 26, 2020 /
Program Type: Webinar /

Webinar Presentation/s

Management of Career Guidance and Counselling
by Ramhari Lamichhane, PhD

Career Counseling Skills and Placement Services
by Engr. Abdul Ghani Rajput

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Background

Teaching profession is a vocation of professional status in the field of education which possesses social, cultural, economic, scientific, artistic and technological dimensions, which is based on expert knowledge and skills and which requires academic study and vocational education. Recognizing the critical role of skills development in achieving sustained economic and social development, maintaining global competitiveness and responding timely to changes in technology and work patterns, the CPSC is promoting TVET in Asia pacific region.

Guidance and counseling services are important; both to education systems and to the labour market. Career guidance has an important role to play within education in laying the foundations for lifelong career development. Here, wider curriculum choice results in more diverse and complex routes into later stages of education, into employment, or into both. This can help to:

Reduce	Improve	Create
Dropouts from and back-tracking within TVET system, and thus improve internal flows	Flows between different levels of education, thus raising national levels of educational attainment	Transitions from training to the labour market

Within the labour market, guidance and counseling can improve the accuracy and accessibility of the information available to individuals about short- and long-term job opportunities. In turn, this can improve individual decision making about jobs and about job training opportunities. It also makes a key difference between the successful and unsuccessful implementation of active labour market programs.

Career counseling is a process in which people's interests, personality, values and skills are assessed and they are helped to explore career options. Career counseling provides one-on-one or group professional assistance in exploration and decision making tasks related to choosing a major/occupation, transitioning into the world of work or further professional training. Career counseling takes care of various aspects like personal insight, support and even a better understanding. Other than these, it helps in building high motivational level by understanding the individualistic wants. It ensures that every individual sets up some goals of consequence and give his/her best in achieving them. The best part about career counseling is that it inspires every individual to make a career for themselves in a field where their interest and passion lie. By doing so, it aids every individual to discover his/her own powers and the success he/she can find nowhere else but within him/her self.

The objective of this webinar is to share the concept of career counseling and related skills to promote and provide Continuous Professional Development for TVET professional. It will also share the opportunities of lifelong learning to prepare TVET professional and trainees to actively meet the ever-changing needs of labor market. Trainers are the most important element in terms of reaching the TVET institution aims. Therefore it is important to share the career counseling process to TVET trainers. The outcome will be aligned with different interpretations and expectations of green skills concept from the various stakeholders’ perspectives.

Objective

To understand the concept of Vocational Guidance and Career Counseling skills;
To monitor, maintain, set and improve professional standards in counselor education and practice;
To share the different models of career counseling and vocational guidance facilities in global context.

Vocational Excellence in the Time of COVID-19

Date: June 22, 2020 /
Program Type: Webinar /

Webinar Presentation/s

Vocational Excellence in the Time of COVID-19
by Prof. Shyamal Majumdar, Ph.D.

TVET in The Context of COVID-19 : Challenges and Opportunities
by Ramhari Lamichhane, PhD
Managing TVET During COVID-19 Pandemic (Video)

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Background

The society is facing an unprecedented crisis due to threats of a global health pandemic. At the beginning of 2020, an unprecedented blow due to COVID-19 has affected the health of hundreds of thousands of people. It continues to claim lives of people in many parts of the world. Perhaps this is the biggest crisis of the 21st century, with a high number of recorded deaths. As a result, there are widespread learning crisis due to the school closures in many countries. According to UNESCO Global monitoring of schools closures caused by COVID-19 , 188 countries are affected by school closures. As a result, 1.54 Billion learners are unable to attend school and learning activities. The scale of impact is also reflected in TVET sector. With a sudden halt in normal running of technical and vocational schools and training institutions, students, trainees and apprentices, are systematically unable to continue planned learning and training processes.

Figure 1. Global monitoring of school closures. Source: UNESCO

In efforts to mitigate the short term and long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments have deployed strategies and approaches corresponding the preparedness of countries to tackle the issue in different fronts. For example, efforts are in place to promote self-isolation of people at home, social-distancing, the closing of shared frontiers, the strict observance of sanitary measures, the restriction of some labour activities, accelerated testing, the closing of schools, universities and prevention of social gatherings All these urgent measures are applied to prevent the worsening of the state of pandemic. However, long-term measures also need to be commenced to manage the serious consequences on the economy, society, culture and education worldwide.

Education and training systems around the globe have started to respond to the situation. Under the circumstances, TVET, an important subset of education and which takes place in secondary, post-secondary and tertiary levels, including work-based learning, continuing training and professional development , cannot be a silent spectator. The essence of how TVET can play an important role in the time of crisis, is discussed in this paper.

How TVET institutions are responding to the crisis

Broadly speaking, the response of education and training systems to the crisis carries two levels of responsibility. The first one acts upon the urgency of the situation (emergency) to avert the occurrence of more serious crisis, with immediate negative effects such as learning interruption that can delay education targets, and systematic entry to the next level of learning or the labour market. The second one acts upon the situation with some stability evidenced in the way temporary measures are working and there are more long-term solution in sight to be developed, to mitigate the far-reaching impact of the crisis. Either way, systems are expected to reach a level of stability with the employed measures, whether they are temporary or long-term to appreciate if the right solutions are meant to stay in place for a long time. In the context of varied developmental structure with specific economic, social and cultural characteristics, the degree of response of institutions is a reflection of their ability to discern the urgency and stability of approach, capacity, the readiness of systems and institutional actors, and availability of resources that suit emergency situations.

Objective

How to bridge the ongoing interruptions of learning due to the closure of schools
How to augment the huge shortages in sanitary and life-saving medical products (e.g., protective gears, mask, & ventilators) and similar shortage of service to supply them within short notice
How to prepare for mindset changes in the post COVID-19 recovery
How Vocational Excellence approaches validated even in the time of COVID-19?

Instructional Design and Applications of E- Learning Courses

Date : Jun 15-19, 2020 /
Program Type: Online Regional Program /

Main Contents

Theme Papers (online)

Special Lecture: 21st Century Skills for Global Competitiveness
Theme Paper 1: Basic Instructional Design Principles for eLearning
Theme Paper 2: E-Learning Components and Approaches
Theme Paper 3: The ADDIE Model for E-Learning
Theme Paper 4: Development of Learning Management System using ICT Tools
Theme Paper 5: E- Assessment Tools

Projects (individual)

Project 1: Conduct SWOT Analysis on E-Learning
Project 2: Perform Task Analysis steps to define skills and knowledge for an E-Learning course
Project 3: Practice Development of LMS (Create online video lecture using online free available tools)

An online Exam (Individual Participant)

Business Incubation Centre (BIC) in TVET institutions

Date: June 9, 2020 /
Program Type: Webinar /

Webinar Presentation/s

Business Incubation Center: A Step of Entrepreneurial Journey
by Ramhari Lamichhane, PhD

Business Incubation Centers in TVET Institutions
by Engr. Sanyog Bhattarai

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Background

This concept paper is prepared for the CPSC webinar on the topic “Business Incubation Centre in TVET institutions”. Business incubators are programs designed to accelerate the successful development of entrepreneurial and technological skills through an array of business support resources and services, developed and orchestrated by incubator management and offered both in the incubator and through its network of contacts. Incubators vary in the way they deliver their services, in their organizational structure, and in the types of clients they serve.

Business incubators are seen as efficient tools for technology transfer and cooperation between the scientific sector and the industry. Generally, they are targeted towards addressing local economic development issues through improvement of the entrepreneurial base. Thus, TVET institutions need to have strong partnership with the business and industry to establish BIC either in their premises or in own premises.

TVET institutions play vital role in the generation of entrepreneurs and with the help of industries in shaping today’s students into tomorrow’s entrepreneurs. Collaboration between institutes and industries is critical for skills development (education and training), the generation, acquisition, and adoption of knowledge (innovation and technology transfer), and the promotion of business incubation centers. The benefits of institute-industry partnership is wide-reaching: they can help exploit synergies and bring intended outcomes of TVET institutions. World over initiatives in TVET like technology business incubator, science parks, research parks, innovation centers are the latest in the evolutionary line of effective institute-industry partnership mechanism. A Technology Business Incubator (TBI) is a form of business incubator that focuses on promoting technology-based business start-ups.

With the technological advancement in the 21st century, TVET institutions need to focus on producing technopreneurs who will be job providers rather than seeking for the employment. One of the best ways to achieve it by establishing BIC in a partnership with industries and enterprises. Therefore, CPSC has design this webinar to share knowledge and TVET institutions’ good practices of BIC.

Focus

This webinar session is designed to provide knowledge on BIC concept, management, and operation. It will also showcase different good practices of BIC adopted by TVET institutions and provide guidelines on establishing BIC in the TVET premises.

Objective

Sharing the concept and management principles of BIC for the TVET institutions.

Strategic Planning and Management for Development of TVET Institutions

Date: June 4, 2020 /
Program Type: Webinar /

Webinar Presentation/s

Srategic Planning Process
by Ramhari Lamichhane, PhD

Strategic Planning and Management for Development of TVET Institutions
by Prof. Dr. D. Brahadeeswaran

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Background and Focus

Organizational change is an important issue. It is actually a process in which an organization optimizes performance as it works toward its ideal state. Organizational change occurs as a reaction to an ever-changing environment, a response to a current crisis situation, or is triggered by a leader.

One of the areas where an organization needs to change and can change is the Mission, Vision, & Strategy. Organizations should continually ask themselves, "What is our business and what should it be?" Answers to these questions can lead to changes in the organization's mission (the purpose of its business), its vision for the future (what the organization should look like), and its competitive strategy.

This program leads us to a process we call strategic planning. Strategic planning is a tool for organizing the present on the basis of the projection of the desired future. A strategic plan is a roadmap to lead an institution from where it is now to where it would like to be in the next five years. In strategic planning, directional guidelines are given by the institution’s stakeholders. These guidelines aid appraising the changing market conditions and spot opportunities or dangers. They examine the organization’s strengths and weaknesses, mission and organizational values. Then, they try to match the corporate opportunities with the organization’s strength and priority commitments .

It is necessary to have a strategic plan for each organization, as this will help chart its future. Strategic planning would ensure that an organization is in sound state and would be able to maintain their operations. It will have a 3 to 5-year projection at least and would very well know how to get there.

This program will therefore elaborate on strategic management as a process for setting both long-term and short-term strategic directions for the organization. The central thrust will be to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage since strategic management is the process of ‘strategic decision making’. It is expected that by learning the process of strategic planning and management, a systematic way of carrying the interrelated activities is undertaken to obtain desired goals and objectives of particular institutions.

Objective

Understand the role and significance of the strategic plan’s elements such as vision, mission, strategic goals and objectives and be able to formulate a draft of those elements.

New Dimensions of TVET with Innovation and Technopreneurship

Career Counseling and Vocational Guidance Skills

Vocational Excellence in the Time of COVID-19

Instructional Design and Applications of E- Learning Courses

Business Incubation Centre (BIC) in TVET institutions

Strategic Planning and Management for Development of TVET Institutions

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