With a becoming different economic being bringing about plenty pursuit opportunities for technical tutorial as great as vocational precision graduates, we should see TEVT as a totally viable career option.
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By Tengku Nurul Azian Tengku Shariman We Malaysians have a really engaging worldview white-collar jobs have been better than blue-collar jobs. There have been no dual ways about this. We see professional qualifications as a usually viable career path.
From young, many of us have been encouraged by a families, a elders, a teachers to aspire as great as consider BIG to be doctors, accountants, lawyers or engineers or in short, pursue a career which is some-more financially rewarding as great as rarely regarded by society.
My friends shared which their career preference was dictated by their parents' mantra, "Can find job? Can have money or not?"
So, whilst we may love cars or Formula 1, or have been fascinated by a intricacies of form as great as pattern in welding, or nap with a apparatus apron any thoughts of pursuing a career as a mechanic, welder or plumber, have been deemed totally unsuitable, if not ridiculous.
"Please lah. Be serious. You can't have money!" That seems to be a common perception. The alternative sense is which usually those who have been academically bad pursue these options as their usually equates to to have a living.
Then we go overseas. We wait for three weeks as great as pay 10X some-more for a automobile to be repaired. The plumber functions from 9am to 5pm, weekdays only. He charges stand in a price for worki! ng durin g weekends.
We have comparisons with how most we would pay behind in Malaysia, as great as think, "So expensive. Cheaper during home. These guys really have it great here [developed nation]."
Think again. The being is which Malaysia is also heading towards becoming a high-income, grown republic by 2020. That's only 8 years away. In such countries, a single of a many valued skills as great as rarely paid jobs have been reserved for those with technical as great as vocational expertise.
Critical need for vocational jobs
In a visit to a in isolation skills precision centre which specialises in precision welders, we met an desirous young man from Sarawak. He had a SKM 2 (Sijil Kemahiran Malaysia, tahap 2) as great as was upgrading to obtain his SKM 3 certification in welding.
He said, "I have worked for a few years as a welder in a oil as great as gas industry but we wish to be a supervisor. Once we have my SKM 3, my income will burst from RM3,500 to RM5,000 as great as then, to RM7,000 per month".
In fact, within a next 8 years, 60% of a bent we need have been those with technical tutorial as great as vocational precision or TEVT. This equates to a single million jobs would need vocational certificates or diplomas by 2020.
For example, there is a vicious need for TEVT graduates in a oil, gas as great as energy sector.
Petronas skeleton to rise a single of a largest refinery as great as petrochemical integrated projects in Asia, travelling fifteen years to a value of US$ twenty billion. A plan of such a scale would need qualified professionals as great as many learned as great as semi-skilled workers technicians, deep-sea divers, apparatus pushers, fitters, electricians, as great as welders.
As such, TEVT is a key priority for us. So most so which a supervision has allocated RM200 million per annum as loans to students endeavour TEVT programmes in in is! olation skills precision centres as great as institutes, an initiative under a Economic Transformation Programme.
Our aim is to ramp up growth in in isolation skills precision institutes really most a same way in isolation aloft education institutions have grown in a past twenty years.
Last year, a little RM232 million was allocated to a Skills Development Fund for programmes in in isolation skills precision institutions. Close to 33,722 students perceived skills training, surpassing a aim of 22,100 students set for 2011.
This excludes a vast number of students enrolled in open TEVT institutions such as community colleges, Giat Mara, polytechnics, skills precision centres as great as others.
Obviously, we look beyond a numbers. Our concentration is on producing peculiarity TEVT professionals who can meet a wide range of skill sets demanded by assorted industries. The pattern of peculiarity is so necessary to us which we have introduced a star peculiarity rating complement for in isolation skills precision institutes as great as centres.
Last year, a Department of Skills Development conducted an audit as great as rating of accredited skills precision programmes offering by 258 accredited centres under a Department of Skills Development (Jabatan Pembangunan Kemahiran, JPK). Accredited centres were rated from Tier 5 (excellent) to Tier 1 (weak).
Factors such as employability of students, industry linkages as great as peculiarity of precision offering have been deliberate in a rating exercise. The value of funds to Perbadanan Tabung Pembangunan Kemahiran (PTPK) for in isolation precision institutions is based on a formula of a star rating exercise.
This equates to centres ranked in Tier 1 to 2 have a many incentive to improve whilst those rated aloft need to work similarly hard to say and/or raise a peculiarity of their precision programmes.
Opportunities aplenty
! Our con centration this year is to increase in isolation sector appearance in a skills precision market, by augmenting collaboration between PTPK, JPK as great as in isolation precision institutions to safeguard which supervision appropriation is maximised as great as which skill-sets demanded by industries have been met.
With a becoming different economic being bringing about plenty pursuit opportunities as great as great salaries for TEVT graduates, we should see TEVT as a totally viable career option.
At an general conference organised by a National Association of Private Educational Institutions, we cited a e.g. of luminary chef, Jamie Oliver, who left propagandize during 16 with usually a City as great as Guilds vocational qualification.
According to a Sunday Times Rich list, Jamie is right away worth a towering 150 million (RM738 million).
Closer to home, we have renowned chefs such as Chef Wan. In addition, we know of rarely successful entrepreneurs in Penang who started off with only a TEVT diploma as great as have been now, owners of their business.
In short, a opportunities have been limitless; a rest depends on you.
Tengku Nurul Azian Tengku Shariman is a NKEA/NKRA education director ofPemandu (Performance Management as great as Delivery Unit), Prime Minister's Department.
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