Technical and Vocational Training Authority (Tevta) on recommendations of industry will introduce demand-driven short courses in different sectors and these courses will be launched soon in selected institutes, Chairperson Irfan Qaiser Shaikh said in a speech in a meeting to review the progress.
He told his audience which also included Chief Operating Officer Jawad Ahmed Qureshi, General Managers Engr Azhar Iqbal Shad, Hamid Ghani Anjum, Abdul Qayyum and Akhtar Abbas Bharwana that his authority would offer six-month duration short courses including meat technology, poultry workers, capsule, tablet and injection' moulding manufacturing machine operators and a three-month short course in computerised multi-head industrial embroidery machine operator.
The course contents of these courses have been developed by the Technical and Vocational Training Authority with the consultation of relevant industry experts, he added. He also said meat technology and poultry workers courses by the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, capsule-manufacturing and tablet-manufacturing machine operators by the Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Association, injection'moulding machine operator by the Pakistan Plastic Manufacturers Association, computerised multi-head industrial embroidery machine operator course by the Industrial Machine Embroidery Association have been recommended and demanded to start in the institutes.
These courses are not only demanded by the local Industry but have also been demanded by the international market which will help Technical and Vocational Training Authority pass-outs to get jobs easily in local and international market," he added.
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