Sustainable VET Frameworks
SUSTAINABLE VET REFORM is a policy of comprehensive and sustainable skills development programs and technical and vocational education and training (VET) that are necessary in guaranteeing a country’s competitiveness in the global labour market and ensuring decent work for all.
The goal is to address inequalities, particularly those on poverty, gender, and class and implement evidence-based technical and vocational education guides reform, where scientific studies point to the most effective methods.
Core and Priority Areas
The VET reform aims to position a country’s VET system as sustainable, responsive, dynamic and of high quality, delivering an excellent standard of education and training, and supporting young people and the workforce to obtain the skills they need to participate and prosper in achieving their country’s sustainability goals.
SUSTAINABILITY
Ensuring that VET is an important driving force for sustainable development.
- Inclusion of sustainable practices in current VET units and courses across industries aligned with Islamic Culture and Teachings
- Emphasis on Marine, Environmental Management and Eco-Tourism which is part of Eco-education
- Promotion of public-private partnerships, a model in which a multi-stakeholder approach is used to strengthen VET delivery
- Raise the community’s awareness and upliftment of the importance of working in technical and vocational fields, as well as provide the appropriate environment for life-long training
RELEVANCE
Ensuring that VET is significant and receptive to the job market, employers, industry, and learners.
- Competency-Based Training – this is geared towards attainment and demonstration of skills to meet industry-defined standards
- Skills demand forecasting – upskilling of the working population, which is among the initiatives currently being pursued, is the development of greater numbers of formal national vocational qualifications profiles
- Work-based learning – apprenticeship model
- Industry-defined standards – improve standards identification in collaboration with the government and different industries
- Making VET pathways more attractive – develop marketing strategies for VET (e.g., success rate of employment of VET graduates, competitive salary package)
- Provision for new VET Programmes that develop industry and labour market responsive skills at the secondary education level and that could also foster the choice of pursuing VET pathways at higher levels – ladderized education pathway
- Incorporate ICT in VET deliveries and training qualifications using distance learning, blended learning and/or self-training programmes offered by institutions
ACCESSIBILITY
Ensuring that all future learners and employers can gain access to suitable information and training when and where it is required, with specific focus on supporting access for disadvantaged sectors.
- Training Products – improvement with the current training packages and accredited courses
- Repackaging marketing and branding strategy of VET programmes by uplifting the standing and value of skill-based education
- Identify micro-credentials within the current VET program
- Trainer Development – making trainer/assessor qualifications compatible with VET standards. Introduction of Trainer/Assessor training programs that are specialized for VET Eco-education programs
- Gender equality in VET Programs – equality of access to VET for females, and participation of females to VET programmes
QUALITY
Sustaining public confidence in the quality and value of VET for learners throughout the years and uplifting it to be of equal value with the higher education system.
- VET Quality Standards – to follow the International Standards for VET qualification, and to be globally competitive and at par with International Research Institution Standards
- Modernization of VET organizations and workplaces so that more valuable and relevant training and professional exposure can be offered to the students. This will not only improve the quality of VET and its learning outcomes, but also foster greater innovation