Fellowship Program to Philippines (Program): 1-14 July, 2012

The TVET Reform Project is an initiative of the Government of Bangladesh, assisted by the International Labor Organization and funded by the European Union. The goal is to ensure Bangladesh’s competitiveness in the global market and reduce poverty by improving the quality of vocational educational and training.

We are 5 persons in Dhaka Polytechnic Institute who have been selected for a fellowship program held in Philippine for 14 days with 23 other participants under the guidance of Ms. Sandra J. Chan-ILO Bangladesh (International expert) and Mr. Serajul Islam-ILO Bangladesh (Program officer).This fellowship program jointly organized by Government of Bangladesh-International Labor Organization and European Union (GOB-ILO-EU). This program is one of the parts of TVET Reform project.

Finally we can conclude that during our  short visit in Philippines, we observed the Competency Based Training and Assessment (CBT&A) system  in different institute and industries under Technical Education and Skilled Development Authority (TESDA) of Philippines and gathered practical experience on CBT&A system. We also observed their training regulations, curriculum design and development, delivery system , learning materials, methods of assessment and certification. We observed that all the training institution’s workshops were well equipped with modern instrument and machineries where the CBT&A systems are running. The equipments and machineries those are costly for training system, in that cases dual training system are applied. For starting CBT&A system properly we like to suggest:

·        Work shop/Classroom should be well equipped with modern instrument and machineries.

·        Skill training is essential for CBT trainers.

·        Machineries for Packaging technician course are costly, so dual training system in this case can be arranged.

We would like to thanks high officials of ILO- Bangladesh, ILO- Philippines and the government of Bangladesh for arranging such a valuable study tour. We think it will be helpful for us to work in CBT&A system, which is newly going to be started by the government of Bangladesh.        

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