[Dawn] Institutional shortcomings, fiscal constraints and defective training contents are responsible for an ineffective technical and vocational education and training system in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
, making the province to continue with a growing unskilled workforce.
The Skills Development Plan (SDP), Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, describes 'social versus economic demands, training contents, linkage of institutional training programmes with employment market, under utilisation of existing facilities, inflexibility/lack of autonomy, informal sector training, apprenticeship training, effect of globalisation and public sector allocations' as constraints and issues facing the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) system in the province.
Setting a roadmap for the province to reduce its unemployment rate and overcome the skilled labour shortages faced by the public and private sector organizations by improving vocation and technical training in the province, the plan was put in place, in October 2012, with the assistance of GIZ, a German development organization, and other development partners of the provincial government.
It was prepared for the provincial ministry for technical education, where, according to a relevant source, it remains unattended, accumulating dust because of official negligence.
SDP asks for involving employers in designing training package, terming it vital to achieve the objective of quality control, relevance, standardisation and making training programme cost effective. Similarly, it emphasises the need for practicing public-private partnership as a pragmatic solution to make training programmes more meaningful and effective.