Vocational Education and Training System
Development Project
(last updated October
2006)
Phase I:
June 2006 - December 2007
Budget: CHF 86’000
Partner: Ministry of Labor and Human Resources
Contact:
tashiwangmo2002@yahoo.com, Tashi Wangmo, Head, Policy and Planning
Div.
Background/Introduction
Achievements
Activities
On-going activities
Future Outlook
Key Project Documents
Background/Introduction:
The goal of the project is to is to
consolidate the capacity and autonomy of the Vocational Education and
Training system in Bhutan to help produce a skilled and productive
national workforce.
An
important part of the five-year Basic Skills Development Project (BSDP)
of the Ministry of Labor and Human Resources included developing a
Vocational Education and Training (VET) system for Bhutan. After the end
of this project, a follow-up phase was deemed essential to ensure that
initiatives taken through the BSDP was consolidated and sustained.
Therefore, the Vocational Education and Training System Development
Project was begun in June 2006 to complement and consolidate activities
and progresses made in developing a VET system in the country.
Within the scope of
this overall goal the project pursues the following major objectives:
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Enhance the
capacity of the Skill Training and Resources Division;
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Develop competency based modular curricula, instructional
methodologies and instructional skills;
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Consolidate and complement the
contributions of the Bhutan-German Project;
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Establish a national accreditation
system;
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Strengthen the technical capability of the Department of
Occupational Standards and stakeholders; and
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Develop a national plan for an overall
unified education and training framework.
To achieve the
objectives, the project concentrates on the following main group of
activities:
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Training and
attachment of Skill Training and Resource Division staff in the
relevant fields and train relevant staff in assessing and developing
competency based modular curricula, instructional methodologies and
instructional skills;
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Further harmonizing
the assessment and certification processes in the vocational
training institutes;
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Assisting the
Department of Occupational Standards in finalizing the draft
Accreditation Guideline and training of trainers in the
implementation of the Accreditation system;
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Building up the
technical capacity of the staff of the Department of Occupational
Standards and relevant stakeholders to manage and implement the
Bhutan Vocational Qualification Frame successfully; and
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Developing the
technical capacity of the staff of the Department of Occupational
Standards through exposure to developed systems and recruitment of
qualifications framework specialist.
Achievements:
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Six DACUM
facilitators have been certified as being able to develop high
quality Occupational Profiles. DACUM workshops have been conducted
by these facilitators under the supervision of a consultant from
TITI in Nepal; and
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Six draft
occupational profiles have been developed as part of the
certification process of the DACUM facilitators. An occupational
profile is the first element in the Bhutan Vocational Qualifications
Framework and is the basis for curriculum development and test item
development.
On-going activities:
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The development of
more occupational profiles is ongoing as an important part of the
training and certification of DACUM facilitators. The TITI in Nepal
would continue to evaluate these profiles;
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Short-term training
of assessors and test item development facilitators with specialized
technical assistance; and
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Short-term
specialized capacity development.
Future Outlook:
Future priorities include specialized short-term capacity development in
training of trainers’ courses, curriculum studies and research, and
management of electronic database including quality control procedures.
Short-term attachment with advanced vocational qualifications
authorities in South East Asia would also be a future activity.
Key Project
Documents:
- Project Document
- Project
Agreement
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