Skill- based and competency- based approaches to education

2.3 Skill- based and competency- based approaches to education

                People are deeply concerned about their present and future prospects in a time of economic uncertainty. Policy makers have a make or break opening and an obligation to chart a new path for ‘public education’ that will secure our economic competitiveness. Education has a very broad connotation. It is not to be strait jacketed with schooling. Any experience of life that results in learning is education. Schooling is a planned and organized learning process. The skills transmitted by an innovative farmer to his fellowmen, by a mother to her children are also a form of education that may result in directly productive and tangible experiences or lead to the development of desirable habits of life. Knowledge and skills developed in training programs. Skill building can be viewed as an instrument to improve the effectiveness and contribution of labor to the overall production. Skilled manpower that can meet the ever-changing human resource requirements industry is creating. That makes a nation’s economic status high and a people’s needs can be fulfill.

Needs

                It is generally accepted that the modern industry needs more ‘knowledge workers’ and that, for economic growth to continue at current levels, there should be a greater emphasis on creativity and innovation. These skills are in extremely short supply and, while the need to develop such skills is clear. Some changes are taking place in further and higher education where the focus is more on educating for employment. Business and industry are increasingly operating in a parallel universe to education. They are assuming responsibility for the development and up-skilling of their workforce in total isolation from the formal structures of public education. So the education system must emphasis on the skilled based and competitive only competency based education can make our new generation more capable and develop the nation.

Classroom implication

                Skilled based education and Competency based education are two forms of education which is very important and essential for present condition of Nepal. We can use and develop the skill of students' and make them more capable for the present needs of nation also for the global market. By skill based education people can develop their skill. For making the effective teaching and learning process the teacher must be skilled and he must have the qualities related to the related subject matter, methodology, new innovation of teaching technology. For doing all these types of development in a teacher we need the training. Through training we can develop the skills and competency. So for making the classroom activities effective skilled based and competency based education is essential.