An Overview on Implementation of Vocational Education in CBSE's Schools: A Report

Abstract

CBSE, Delhi is a pioneer Board to start the vocational courses way back from 1977 as per the policy of Govt, of India. Since then it has been making strenuous efforts in developing various courses under different sectors and their effective implementation through the schools. No doubt the Board has done tremendous work in the area of vocational education but it is still away from the national goal enunciated in NPE 1986. Hence, there is an urgent need for self evaluation. In order to get feedback from the schools and implementing agencies and to thrash out the issues the Board organised two-day conference on vocational education on 14-15 Feb. 1995. The conference dwelt upon various aspects such as suitability of the curriculum, training facilities in the schools, qualified teachers, industry and school relationship, on-job-training, textual material and the placement of the pass outs in different vocations. I hope that recommendations made by the different groups in this report will go a long way in solving the various problems / issues related to implementation of vocational education scheme.