Vocational education not effective: Report

Over 60% of the candidates and employers find vocational education courses to be ineffective. Further, from an employment point of view, only 18% of the students undergoing voc-ed courses get jobs, of which merely 7% are formal jobs, it said. 

Key reasons for the disconnect between vocational education courses and the industry is the absence of rich academic content, inadequate funding and negative perception about these courses. 

Also, another major issue in the system is the lack of awareness for these courses as well as the lack of scope for continued learning. Moreover, voc-education courses do not have a structure for defined outcomes and so tend to be ineffective. 

Around 70% of the employers feel the quality of training provided by the vocational institutes is not up to the mark. Rather it is poor. 

Further, around 72% of the corporates interviewed felt the employability was also considerably low in candidates who are from the vocational education stream. This discontent over the training process is not only been felt by the employers, even students (42%) also agree that the training quality is below par.