Published By: Bono Sen

The Importance And Outcome Of Vocational Education

Vocational education ensures the self-reliance of the disadvantaged!

In a developing country like India, where a large portion of the adult population is still completely illiterate, vocational education can be very useful for facilitating self-employment opportunities to increase the economic productivity of the country. Vocational education needs to be made more effective in order to alleviate the poverty of the backward and illiterate population by providing them financial support. At the same time, vocational education has a significant impact on the country's overall income growth and nationwide development.

Vocational education: A necessary step for the formation of suitable technically skilled workers.

The usefulness of this vocational education is increasing as an alternative to the conventional education system for studying the necessary technologies to develop qualified and capable mechanics and technicians for various professional fields. The main objective of this education system is to create proficient and experienced workers qualified in various technological assistance. Also, creating a nationwide self-reliant workforce, empowering men as well as women from poor families financially and bringing every person in the country under the umbrella of universal education etc. are the important goals of vocational education.

To make students interested in practical subjects

As an alternative to the conventional education system, vocational education system provides knowledge in various fields including technical industry, agronomy, biotechnology and trains about the equipment being used in those areas.  This education system helps students to develop a respectful and dignified attitude towards manual workers and manual laborers.

Helping students build moral character

Among the students, vocational education creates the mentality of seeing all types of people in the society as equals along with acknowledging the influential role of everyone. Not only intellectual labor but also technical skills have an active role to play in the development of the country and society, vocational training extends this learning to students.

Making students self-productive

Due to the direct opportunity of practical training in vocational education, the amount of production increases. By increasing the productivity of the individual and the country, in the end, this education system strengthens the foundation of the country's economy. Furthermore, Self-productive as well as self-reliant students can overcome poverty and easily achieve financial success by being trained in vocational education.

Vocational Education: Significant Outcomes

Vocational education is very effective in solving social and environmental problems. By providing life and livelihood based education to the poor and illiterate people of the country, they are turned into human resources. In addition to technical learning, students also have the opportunity to earn money simultaneously. Vocational education is considered as a successful and fruitful way to alleviate poverty as a result of self-development of students. Further promotion and dissemination of vocational education could enable far-reaching and lasting change in the socio-economic context of the country.