A Study of the Teachers’ Perception about Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) Curriculum Improvement through TVET Reforms
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2017
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University and Management and Technology
Abstract
TVET Reform Support Program (RSP) in 2011 with an aim to devise a National
Skills Strategy (NSS), introduced systems to impart and assess skills, making this sector
as an engine to economic growth. This is a multi-lateral initiative co-funded by the
European Union (EU), the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Federal
Republic of Germany, and being implemented in Pakistan by the GIZ (CBT&A). The
study objective about improve learning outcomes, curricular reforms are being introduced
and adapted after the TEVT Reform. A major practical aspect of this is to improve the
curriculum of textbooks used in TVET system, so the project is also under the supporting by the
TVET Reform. The population of the study was confined all the teachers of private and
public technical institutions at Lahore There were total four public and twenty private
technical institutions in Lahore. The random sampling technique was used on the basis of
three most common technical areas: Electrical, Civil and Mechanical. A self-developed
questionnaire was used for data collection. The collected data was analyzed through using
SPSS (statistical package for social sciences) in order to investigate the teachers’
perception regarding improvement of TVET curriculum after the of TVET Reforms in
technical institutions the findings of the study revealed that teachers’ perception regarding
the improvement of TVET curriculum practice after the TVET Reform are not affected by
the qualification, experience, and nature of job and area of specialization of the teachers.
It is suggested that future research should include other improvement of TEVT curriculum practices to gain deep insight to explore this area of research.
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Supervised by: Dr. Zaheer Asghar
Keywords
TVET Reform Support Program, National Skills Strategy,European Union,Public technical institutions