Vocational Training Role in Employment of Nepali People Ph.D. Student, Kul B. Basnet Professor, Jinsoo Kim Dept. Of Technology Education Korea National University of Education Asian Conf. of AASVET , Beijing, 2011.5.26-27 1
Mar 31, 2015
Vocational Training Role in Employment of Nepali People
Ph.D. Student, Kul B. BasnetProfessor, Jinsoo Kim
Dept. Of Technology EducationKorea National University of Education
Asian Conf. of AASVET , Beijing, 2011.5.26-27
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•INTRODUCTION
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•SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONTEXT
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•EMPLOYMENT SITUATION
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•VOCATIONAL TRAINING and PROGRAM
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•CONSTRAINTS and OBSTACLES
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•CONCLUSION
OUTLINE
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Vocational Education & Training (VET) Help to young professional to move
from school environment to world of work.
Can develop appropriate skills, improve labor supply and employability of the workforce.
Economic environment determine size and nature of skill; benefit of training.
Responsibility of planners linking train-ing with economic productivity.
I. INTRODUCTION
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In Nepal number of non-skilled youth and
educated unemployed are increas-ing fast.
New job related with IT and com-puter are growing fast; and
channeling unskilled workers into new growth area is not happening.
Sustained and consolidated effort is needed.
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NepalResponsible institute should
come up with consolidated pol-icy and program to create job in market.
To link vocational training with employment, active participation of business and industry is es-sential.
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Discuss current employment situation and role of voca-tional training in employment in Nepal.
PURPOSE
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Situation
Nepal work-force lacks productivity because of skill training
Foreign em-ployment – provide skill training be-fore going – could easily increase an-nual income
Gap between vocational training pro-gram and em-ployment
NEPAL
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Vast number of adults have ei-ther not been to school or not received any vocational training. As a result workforce lacks pro-ductivity in domestic as well as in overseas labor markets.
REASON OF STUDY
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Qualitative methodExamination of written docu-
mentsDescriptive analysisAuthors individual experience
and observation
RESEARCH FRAMEWORK
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Mosaic of cul-ture, language
and religion
Ethnic group – 101
Language - 92
Economy-labor intensive
Land frag-mentation
Sharp rise of inequality
II. SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONTEXT
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Labor intensive agriculture Cultivating fragile soils Raising livestock for low returns
BASIS OF ECONOMY
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S.N.
Holdings Percent Holdings
Percent Area (ha)
1 <0.50 ha 46.93 14.7
2 <1.00 – 0.50 ha 27.22 24.18
3 >1 ha 25.85 61.12
FARM LAND OWNERSHIP AND DISTRIBUTION
Source: Central Bureau of Statistics, 2001 (Agriculture Census)
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NEPAL 2009HDI-2.4%
Rank-138 (169)Inequality - 0.41
Srilanka 1960
Pakistan 1970
India 1980
Bhutan 1980
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PERFORMANCE
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Description Male (%)
Female(%)
Total (%)
Never attend school 32.4 58.2 46.7
Less than primary 13.2 8.8 10.7
Primary 16.7 10.9 13.5
Lower secondary 11.2 7.0 8.9
Secondary 17.0 10.4 13.4
Higher secondary 5.4 2.9 4.0
Bachelors and Masters 3.3 0.9 2.0
Others 0.7 0.8 0.7
Not stated 0.1 0.1 0.1
POPULATION AGED 15 & OVER LEVEL OF COMPLETED EDUCATION
Source: Nepal Labor Force Survey– 2008
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Agricul-ture – 73.9%
Non-agri-culture –
26.1%
Paid em-ployees- 16.9%
Population employment
ratio – 81.7%
III. EMPLOYMENT SITUATION
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• 1-19hrs-11%• 20-39 hrs-20%• 40 hrs more-
68%
Employment
• Urban-14.2%• Rural-4.2%
Unemployment • Rural -32.51%• Urban-29.25%• Total – 42%
Under em-ployment
LABOR FORCEGrowth rate – 2.6%Agriculture – give 90 days work/yr
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Cumulative number
Going out for employment
Countrywide data (2009/2010)
Year Number Year Number Country Name Number of people
2001 250,000 2006/07 204,533 Malaysia 113,900
Saudi Arab 63,700
2007 500,000 2007/08 249,051 Qatar 57,340
UAE 33,840
2008 800,000 2008/09 219,965 Kuwait 8,255
2011 1,200,000 projected
2011 pro-jected
294,094 Oman 3,285
Others 13’744
FOREIGN EMPLOYMENT
Source: Department of Foreign Employment Promotion
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Ministries
Participatory District Devel-
opment Program
Department of Labor
Department of Cottage & Small
Industry
CTEVT
Vocational Training and Community De-velopment ProgramTraining Institute
Skills for Em-ployment Project
NGOs
Training for Em-ployment
F-skill
Rural Develop-ment Bank
IV. VOCATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM
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1. Gap between policies, plans, programs and
implementation2. Access/ Re-sources
Labor Market Rigidities
3. Political Stabil-ity
4. Weak Gover-nance
5. Infrastructure shortcomings
V. CONSTRAINTS & OBSTACLES
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VET
1Develop model giving value to voca-tional training and skills.
2Give opportu-nity to school dropout and rural people.
3Adopt rapidly changing de-mands of la-bor market
VI. CONCLUSION
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Central Bureau of Statistics. (2009). Report on the Nepal
Labor Force Survey 2008.National Planning
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National Planning Commission. (2005). Implementation of
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