Practical Partnership in the Nepali TVET System: Some Innovative Initiations

Abstract

Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) systems all over the world have realized that there should be joint efforts between government and business and industry to provide and finance training programme. The key then is finding an appropriate and practical balance between government, private and non-government provision for training people in the field of skills development. Working together with the employers and training institutes is the major rising concern in many developing countries like Nepal. Engaging the employers and training providers in (TVET) provision is essential and, like many other South Asian countries, Nepal’s TVET policy 2012 emphasizes the private sector’s role and partnership in skills development. In practice however, joint efforts in the Nepali TVET system have been weak and not extended much beyond the private sector. Thus, adequate partnership among public TEVT training institutions and business/industries should be developed for economic development of the country.