A two-day National seminar was organised on Reimagining Vocational Educational in Schools and Capacity Building of Vocational Coordinators. The seminar concluded on Sunday.
The event was graced by V.S Mehrotra, Joint Director, PSSCIVE who was the Chief Guest for the National Conference.
The 2-day conference began with an Inaugural Session, where opening remarks were made by Abhishek Gupta,National Project Manager, AISECT and Aditi Chaturvedi, Director, AGU.
The conference was strategically divided into themes relevant in the current times. The themes in the conference were – emerging perspectives in the future trends of VE, institutional development for achieving excellence in VE, NEP 2020: strategies and policies for VE in India, professional development of vocational coordinators and teachers for promoting VE excellence in schools and cross-sharing of experiences, good practices and approaches of VE excellence.
Speaking about the conference, Santosh Choubey, Chairman of AISECT highlighted “The rift between the current state of learning and what is required needs to be bridged by undertaking major reforms that bring high-quality education, equality, and integrity into the system. The National Education Policy 2020 is the much-awaited reform in the Indian education system that aims to promote an inclusive & holistic approach to education. AISECT has initiated the first step in the form of providing Vocational Education to the school students.”
The Chief Guest of the event, V.S Mehrotra highlighted the importance of Vocational Education through the lens of NEP 2020. He enlightened us about the scope of Vocational Education in national as well as international level and how it shall be useful in generating employment opportunities as well as growing the economy of the country.
The event was backed by sessions on leadership skills and team building activities. Category wise state awards and Best Vocational Award per state per sector was also presented to respective states and Vocational Trainers.