VTC Program

MARIA VOCATION TRAINING CENTRE (MVTC) PROGRAM

Introduction.

It was a great dream of the founder to build-up a vocational training centre in the locality. He felt that local unemployed youth both boys and girls neither goes to school nor could they engage any job or even income generating activities. Eventually the dream was fulfilled and one vocational training centre has come to existence in the locality. No doubt the Maria Vocational Training Centre was started its journey in 2009 at Rajihar Village Agailjhara Uapzila under Barisal District in Bangladesh. It is an alternative job creation Institution running on at least four trade course

The centre believes that training without none can be skill or to be professional. In that sense the centre has taken time needed modern technology upgrading vocational training course in the centre. The main focus of MVTC and its facilities are a platform for life delivery of training excellence professional and make them to skill and export manpower for International labor market. MVTC takes a practical approach to training and course are carefully to be their content has the highest relevance to achieving the key objective of employment. All elements of the courses have to be delivered in Bangla and English

The Strategies plan we made for the next ten year has helped us recognize the new interventions as technical education must consider in the right against unemployed and poverty and we are grateful for the constructive and positive support of all our development partners

Education is a basic human right and considered by many as a key tool for national development. Technical Education plays a vital role in human resource development of the country by creating skilled manpower, enhancing industrial productivity and improving the quality of life. Education is important for every individual in a nation. It plays a vital role to change the state of a country. No country could bring a revolution in it unless everybody is educated enough to meet the challenges. Education makes a man realize about himself and his goals and how to achieve that goal.

Basically, Education is divided into three groups. The Education which teaches the concerns of a society is called Social Education. The Education which develops a personality inside a man himself is called Spiritual Education. The Education that concerns with the professionalism is called Vocational Education. In the light of the Aloshikha has launched one vocational training center to create job replacement among the local unemployed youth both the girls and young adults in the locality. The center felt that only technical education is one of the important sources for creating job replacement among the local unemployed youth at national and international levels.

Technical Education plays a vital role in human resource development of the country by creating skilled manpower, enhancing industrial productivity and improving the quality of life. Technical Education covers the branch of Vocational Education which courses and programs in technology, mechanical, electrical, garments and tailoring, and welding fabrication & other general subjects which has selected by the Bangladesh Technical Education Board, practically in the field of trade, commerce, agriculture, & Engineering. However, in a short period, the Center has able to established its vocational education system in the locality with nice name and fame.

In the light of Aloshikha RSD Centre organized to MVTC program and government registration four trades (Mechanical, Electrical, Welding, Garments cum tailoring)

Next five year in the light of SAKO Foundation and SK Foundation thanks for supported to MVTC Program continued

Registration

According to the system and rule and regulation from the Bangladesh Technical Education Board authority, every student have to be registered with concern authority to fulfilling some of the criteria and specific terms and conditions. Fortunately for us, the center has able to completed registration all of the students of the center in the month of March 2012 in guidance with Bangladesh Technical Education Board. Hopefully, all of students who are newly registered with the Board they might be appeared to the final examination that will be held on in the month of December 2013.

New managing committee formed.

Due to increasing globalization and liberalization in most of the countries across the world, realization of the challenges faced to make vocational education and training system to be more need-based and effective, more dynamic and responsive to the changes taking place in the industrial scenario. As consequences for strengthening the vocational education system and its boost up the operational strategies of the center a new managing committee has been formed in the month of March 2012 for vocational training center. There were seven members of the committees as criteria of the Bangladesh Technical education board and out of seven only one member is nominated from the Bangladesh Technical education Board. It is estimated that the new committee will be more responsive to supervise and close monitoring the overall activities and performances of the center and also they able to explore time needed demand for activating the all programs of the center. The committees we were already send to the Bangladesh technical board for approval that same copy forwarded to you for your kind information, but yet we not have able to received any picture of the member who was nominated from the Board.

Lab equipment and Furniture.

According to syllabus of S.S.C vocational education the subjects like physics, chemistry, math, computer application and engineering drawing in practicing laboratory based practical class learning Lab equipment and reagents to be urgently required. In addition to more focus of computer class learning and for availability of seat for students and furniture’s are to be needed in the class room.

Aloshikha Rajihar Social Development Under the Project The Rural Community Library a Center for Alternative Education

The rural community library a development information and communication network in Bangladesh has been serving the community with up-to-date information with the help of its rural information resource center has opened up a new horizon in expanding education, poverty alleviation, gender, environment, health awareness for the country people. The project provides a comprehensive overview of the rural community library as a source of development information system in Bangladesh and explores its impacts on the people of Bangladesh. However, in order to bring together the records of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, and in this regards we must believe in three things.

It must believe in the past.
It must believe in the future.
It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.

The Rural Community Library Project is initiated by Aloshikha RSD Center Bangladesh as the nonprofit organization committed to the establishment of new, small libraries in rural areas. We collaborate with citizens, public library systems, and governments in these areas to raise funds for and build libraries in our remote villages. We view these local community libraries as centers of learning, community building, and civic pride. In connection with the Aloshikha is operated the variety of development programs as integrated approaches, and among them, education is one of the prime concern. Presently the organization is operated one Vocational Training Center duly registered and affiliated with the Bangladesh Technical Education Board, and in terms of four trades course has already approved both the theoretical and practical class learning. Besides that, 40 pre schools are being operated in the out reach remote villages to eradicating illiteracy and reducing drop out rates, and three kindergarten school also been operated in its selected places, and approximate 1500 children both the girls and boys are enrolled every day. In the point of view there is no alternative way for the library, without this library students are can not be acquired their skills and knowledge properly.

In order to only few quality books on library and information, science is published in Bangladesh. .Sophisticated and comparatively rich students are depending on foreign library journals and books, which are expensive. Foreign books and journals should be used to gain knowledge of international library education and librarianship. Similarly, abstracts and indexes should be published in time for the benefit of researchers. Professional associations and academic departments must publish journals or newsletters on a regular basis, to keep professionals informed about developments in the field. It hopes that the rural community library system could be able to open a new door of opportunities for students, teachers, researchers, scholars and as well as all forms of omnivorous readers in the areas.

Besides that, there has been a proliferation of library science institutes in the country. Many institutes were started without proper facilities and faculty. This has caused problems and affects the standard of library education. National University and LAB administrations have allowed institutions to develop like mushrooms, without securing proper staff, skilled faculty members, adequate preparation, and facilities. Certainly, this is not the right way to provide the training that will equip librarians sufficiently. There is an urgent need for the consolidation and improvement of existing training programs and to ensure that quality is maintained.

Academic institutions and professional associations must make the government aware of the importance of library education, libraries, Internet access, database development, and library networking. The government must provide proper funding for library science institutions, which are responsible for training and producing future librarians, library administrators, and library educators; otherwise, it will be difficult for them to catch up and compete in the competitive and changing modern world.

Continuing education for faculty should be an integral part of all library institutions and associations. It will help the faculty to learn teaching methods with the latest electronic tools rather than depending on their old hand-written notes, to teach courses in the fast changing field of library science. In that sense the proposed rural community library able to make the bridge to gap between the district level public library and community library system, and create the facility to gain skill and knowledge all forms of people in the areas.

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