Write a paragraph on "Importance of vocational Education in Bangladesh"

 Vocational education means learning to change one's behavior to enhance the quality of life through word and values, without of alone with formal schooling. The target groups may be determined as follows on the priority basis:

• Those who neve went to a school.
• Those who dropped out of school.
• Unemployed youths in search of jobs.
• Young men and women in the rural areas.
• Youth in tribal areas.

Characteristics of VE:

• It is flexible.
• Although place, contents, policy, time of obtaining education are predetermined, yet these can be changed according to the need of the learners.
• Life long of no limitation of time for this education system.
• Education activities are directed in congenial atmosphere.
• Life and need based educational curriculum.
• Sometimes a minimum course fees are taken.

Importance of VE:

The main emphasis on vocational education should be on programs based on contents which have direct relevance to struggling against poverty and activating the people solve various problems they face in their day to day life. The government take up a project to expand technical education in Bangladesh, decided to set up 389 technical schools and colleges at the upazilla level and one polytechnic institute each in 23 districts to increase enrolment in technical or vocational education to 20% by 2020.

The main contents of VE:

• Information and knowledge about environment.
• Knowledge about social, economic, scientific and technological changes in the environment in which the learners live and will work.
• Elementary principles of health, hygienic child care and nutrition.
• Basic skills in reading, writing and arithmetic.
• Introductory occupational and vocational skill programmers to prepare the learns for a job of for self employment.
• Family planning and activities for professional development.

Seems that the introduction of such provisions is a necessary corollary to the full utilization of the program of vocational education that is proposing which should provide with workshop and increasing the GDP of Bangladesh