Germany has been developing the
vocational training sector in Sri Lanka for over 50 years through bilateral collaboration that supports
vocational training courses throughout the island.
He added that views of
vocational training as demeaning manual labour could not be farther from the truth.
They also discussed the possibility of twinning the Commercial Khansa'a Institute in Taiz province with an equivalent institute in Jordanin addition to requesting a Jordanian assistance in updating Technical Education and
Vocational Training curriculums in Yemen.
It aims to promote the exchange of experience, studies, documents and legislations in the fields of employment and
vocational training.
The meeting besides others was also attended by chairman Punjab
Vocational Training Council Faisal Khan, secretary technical education, Arbab Shah Rukh, director general technical education, Asmatullah Gandapur, additional secretary establishment Abdul Latif and additional secretary labour, Aftab Muhammad Khan.
He said: "This programme is truly unique as it provides both longterm unemployed people and youngsters in Merseyside with the opportunity to go abroad and undertake beneficial
vocational training, gain practical experience in a real working environment, and develop useful second language skills.
They include collaborating more with College of the Canyons on
vocational training programs and helping students focus more on specific career directions.
A hospital and a
vocational training center have been established as a result of donations from Taiwan, reports Central News Agency (July 27, 2004).
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Vocational Training News and What Work's in Teaching & Learning.
This publication offers a brief description of Spain's
vocational training system and its radical overhaul since the early 1990s in an effort to adjust to the new economic and social context in Europe.
After the 1974 Portuguese revolution, it was quickly understood that education and
vocational training and vocational guidance practices, in fact, consist of two related processes or factors.
For instance, people with psychiatric disabilities often spent a great amount of time in the programs' "work therapy unit" where they received
vocational training and learned a functional worker's role (similar to work adjustment in the U.
