Question

Suggest two measures to improve vocationalisation of secondary education of Manipur?

Answer 1

Answer:

The Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Vocationalisation of Secondary Education provides for diversification of educational opportunities so as to enhance individual employability, reduce the mismatch between demand and supply of skilled manpower and provides an alternative for those pursuing higher education.

The Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Vocationalisation of Secondary Education at + 2 level is being implemented since 1988. The revised scheme is in operation since 1992-93. The Scheme provides for financial assistance to the States to set up administrative structure, area vocational surveys, preparation of curriculum, text book, work book curriculum guides, training manual, teacher training programme, strengthening technical support system for research and development, training and evaluation etc. It also provides financial assistance to NGOs and voluntary organizations towards implementation of specific innovative projects for conducting short-term courses.

The Scheme, so far, has created infrastructure of 21000 sections in 9619 schools and creating a capacity of about 10 lakh students at + 2 level. The grants released so far since the inception of the scheme is Rs. 765 crore.

Based on the recommendations of various Committees/Review Groups, the existing Scheme is being revised

Answer 2

Vocational educational education when mixed with general education it is known as vocationlisation of education. This is designed to introduce manual skills in general education and implies training in some vocations at the Higher Secondary  and secondary, level with general education.

According to the 2011 census, the Manipur literacy rate is 76 percent of the total population. This ensures that most people have sufficient education abilities to achieve welfare being in the society. However, much of the population has no jobs in organized sectors.

Explanation:

• To avoid of such unemployment, government must be careful in setting up vocationalisation of education. The present curriculum for vocational courses is obsolete as the curriculum does not match with the parent subjects. The best strategy is offering vocational training curriculum which can be matched with parent subjects. For example,  students  of physics must be advised to opt for vocational paper such as repairing equipment, machinery, and electronic gadgets.
• An emphasis in vocational education will also be on  to enhance individual employability and reduce the mismatch between the supply and demand  of skilled man-power. Most industries in Manipur  also remain unorganized, which contributes to impaired policy formulation. For example,  the economics and statistics department have a small staff. The government must introduce policies to employ graduate students to gather data as part of the curriculum so as to fill up the strength. It will help them to understand and work with data collection to structure state policy better, such as the implementation of household insurance plans, if the state so wishes.