Why Vocational Education is Important?

by Ratul Puri Marketing Consultant

What is Vocational Education?

Vocational education refers to a system of study in which an individual is prepared for the kind of jobs that are based on manual or practical activities. It is traditionally non-academic in nature and is totally related to a specific trade, occupation or vocation. Until the end of 20th century, vocational education was associated with activities of lower social classes. But with the economic development worldwide, the labor market became more specialized and demand for higher skill levels for both public and private sectors started increasing rapidly. This has lead to the further development of vocational education in India.

Importance of Vocational education

Children education foundation in India, one of the well-known education foundations has taken crucial steps in incorporating vocational education as one of the important part in School system India. There is a lot of importance associated with vocational training. Some of them are mentioned below-

Vocational education is multi-sectoral in nature. Each department in central as well as Government is responsible for manpower development in that specific sector. This leads to skilled manpower in each sector.
The aim of vocational training is to develop skilled manpower through diversified courses and to meet the requirements of mainly the unorganized sector. It also aims to prepare people for the world of work in general through a large number of self-employment oriented courses.
Vocational education helps people in better job performance as they acquire great learning experience.
It makes individual responsible and independent whereas who study regular courses lack in this sphere.
Another importance is hands-on work activities allow direct application of acquired knowledge.

Children Education Foundation in India truly believes in empowering children with high quality education, regardless of their social or economic status. They also focus on the quality of early childhood education schools in India. Real quality in education is the basic fundamental to the quality of the human resource of the nation which is responsible for its growth. The scope of education is extremely wide and therefore students are constantly looking for trustworthy educational avenues. Their parents too are constantly in search of bettering the lives of their children through fruitful education.

Keeping this in mind, branding of education has become necessary. An educational brand succeeds on the basis of faith and trust and therefore quality of education imparted would be the first and foremost consideration for a stakeholder to choose an educational brand.

Author’s Bio-
This article states about the importance of vocational education in India and how it enables an individual to be an expertise in a particular field.