HRD Zahid

BTEC HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMA
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HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

Assignment By:
Muhammad Zar Bakht
Submitted to:
Sir Awais Ahmed

8/23/2013

Human Resource
Development
(Role of Government in
Training and Development)
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Acknowledgment
On the successful completion of this report, I want to say special thanks to Sir Aaqib Raza for his
support. He guided me well about the tasks of the assignment so that I could finish the report
soon. I also like to thank my assessor Sir Awais for his effort and support for the whole class.
They guided us well and build concept of this unit through different modes. Without both of
these teachers, may be I couldnt complete the assignment.

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Table of Contents
Importance of Skill and Development .......................................................................................................... 5
Importance of Human Resource Development ............................................................................................ 6
Initiatives of UK Government........................................................................................................................ 7
Contribution of UK Government to HRD .................................................................................................. 7
Role of Different Councils and Organizations in Promoting the Competency in UK .................................... 8
Sector Skill Council (SSC) ........................................................................................................................... 9
Learning and Skill Council (LSC) ................................................................................................................ 9
Investor in People (IIP) ............................................................................................................................ 10
National Vocational Qualification (NVQs) ............................................................................................... 11
Sheffield Forgemaster International ........................................................................................................... 12
SFILs Exposure towards Learning and Development ............................................................................. 12
Impact of these Government Schemes on SFIL and Competency Movement ........................................... 13
Role of Govt. of Pakistan for Training and Development ........................................................................... 14
TEVTA (Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority) ........................................................... 15
Pakistan Govt. role with reference to TEVTA ...................................................................................... 16
NIP (National Internship Program) ......................................................................................................... 17
NAVTTC (National Vocational and Technical Training Commission) ...................................................... 18
NAVTTC projects of Training and Development ................................................................................. 20
NAVTTC in Public and Private Sector .................................................................................................. 22
Edexcel-BTEC ........................................................................................................................................... 23
BTEC ........................................................................................................................................................ 23
BTEC Vocational Centre Listing in Lahore ........................................................................................... 24
Ofqual ...................................................................................................................................................... 24
Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................... 25
Self Evaluation and Criticism ....................................................................................................................... 26
Bibliography ................................................................................................................................................ 27

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Introduction
This assignment is mainly concerned about the role of UK government and Pakistan in taking the
initiative to develop skills and abilities to the people of the country for their better development
and disseminate the importance of HRD. So in the course of completing the assignment, we have
to discuss on famous example of Sheffield Forgemaster who, due to the government initiatives in
the field of study, recover a big slump in 2004. We have to discuss the reason that how Sheffield
Forgemaster recover the market share after 2004, in the first task. Then we have to discuss the
role of different councils and organizations in supporting the initiatives of the Government
practically, like, SSC, LSC, IIP, NVQ, Edexcel, BTEC, British Council etc, and How Sheffield
took benefit out of them to have a turnover of 120 million pounds. After that we have to discuss
the role of Pakistan Government in taking initiatives in learning and development by making
authorities like, NAVTTC, TEVTA, NIP etc to promote the competency movement all over the
country to develop people. Further we have to discuss the NAVTTC different projects and its
partnership with public and private sector of Pakistan and its role in developing the Pakistan. In
the end, we have to give suggestions to Pakistan and UK government in the course learning and
development.

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Importance of Skill and Development
Skills development is a much broader concept involving a larger, more diverse provider
community.
A growing number of countries have achieved the goal of universal primary education and others
are moving closer to this goal and building a pipeline of young people who expect to follow
further education and training to improve their Skills and chances for employment. Among
employed persons, demand continues to grow for skills that enable them to keep up with
structural changes in the economy brought about by technological changes and shifting patterns
of consumer demands.
Since Early 1990s, the World Bank completed its policy study and provides a positive
assessment for Vocational and Technical Education. Later research proved that the Vocational
qualification under the right conditions can produce positive Rates of Return favorable to those
of general education.
The evidence shows that technical and vocational education is more effective when
focused on skills closely linked to market demand (Neuman, 1990).
Researchers (Neuman, 1990) also show that,
The payoff in Israel to technical and vocational education is higher where graduates
are placed in jobs.
Later on, the researches and surveys of big companies that want to spread educations and skills
to improve the economy, have achieved many positive results skill development through
vocational qualifications and show the following results:
Providing higher level skills can pay benefits where an economy is producing jobs that
demand these skills. (Maine, 2005)
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Special programs providing skills and other support services have been successful in
improving employment outcomes for needy youths.
Huge organizations like, World Bank also contributed toward these programs
Vocational education and training can help broaden the opportunities for young
women.

Importance of Human Resource Development
Human resource development (HRD) is one of the most important functions of human resource
management. The aim of human resource development in an organization is to maximize the
productivity.
Human Resource Development is one of the key functions of an organization. It is the
framework for the expansion of human resource talent within the organization. Human capital is
an inventory of human talent, skills and education at the disposal of organizations while human
resource development is usually based on the training and educational programs designed to
ensure the continuous improvement of both the individuals and organizations. HRD is the
systematic process through which employees of any organization learn new and improved skills
and talent that can be beneficial for the organizations.
Human resource development allows the employees to progress in their careers and enables the
organization to achieve its goals efficiently and effectively as well. It treats employees as an
asset to the organizations whose value can be enhanced through the enhancement of knowledge
and talent through education, development. The primary focus of human resource development is
on the growth and employee development.
Keeping the importance of skill development and their providers, in mind, Government of UK
takes so many initiatives to better the economy and to disseminate the education in market from
which people can take benefit and serve the economy.

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Initiatives of UK Government
The development of HRD in the UK was one of the best things that UK government did. In late
90s, government had taken so many initiatives to spread education for the skill and development
of the employed and unemployed people. These contemporary initiatives by launching different
courses and programs, helped already employed people in developing their skills and abilities
through training (under these contemporary training initiatives) and manages to provide
educations and required skills to unemployed ones through training to better the economy.
Since the last few years, UK government paid better attention towards the education for the
public and starts some important program by investing in these agendas, to better the abilities of
the talented people and contributed for career development that had a major effect upon the
provision and understanding of HRD in the UK.
Contribution of UK Government to HRD
The projects started by the government largely support the Human Resource Development in
United Kingdom. Reason behind is that these initiatives was developed to shine the abilities and
skills of people and to develop their careers in education to serve the economy by developing the
organizations in a way, favorable for technological changes and dynamic customer demands in
the market. Actually this is the main purpose of human resource developers to allocate the
resources in a way that help to build up the workforce. Government by understanding the
importance of these initiatives and HRD contribution take the right steps. As these initiatives was
taken to spreading the importance of human resource and ultimately develop workers, therefore
the HRD developers also contribute with government to better provision and launch of these
programs. Therefore, though these plans are led by government of UK, the majority of these
initiatives are based upon a stakeholder view of HRD and the economy.
The UK government wishes to promote skill across all sectors of the workforce, with associated
quality control and promote HRD through:
Creation of National Occupational Standards
Modern Apprenticeship Frameworks
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These programs are then managed by different institutions and independent organizations of UK,
for example:
SSC (Sector Skills Council)
LSC (Learning and Skill Council)
IIP (Investor in People)
BTEC (Business and Technology Education Council)
These UK government initiatives also supported by different promoting programs of training
Institution, Educational Bodies, Boards (launch by UK government to handle the agendas). Some
of these are:
NVQs (National Vocational Qualifications)
Edexcel etc
Basically these are the steps by the UK government that contributed in spreading the importance
of HRD and needs of skills in people. From this to so on, there are hundreds of organizations that
take the organization to the top level in industry by educating the workforce through these
programs and take maximum benefits out of these Government Initiatives. These organizations
by introducing the above listed programs played a huge role in developing the peoples in UK to
serve their nation and economy.
Role of Different Councils and Organizations in
Promoting the Competency in UK

To take the initiatives up, took by the government, different Councils and Organization like,
SSC, IIP, LSC, and BTEC etc played a huge role. These councils execute the agendas of the UK
government practically and stated the new stories of success in the history. Every organization
plays their own important role towards implementation of these programs by making different
bodies and starting different new programs. The summaries of contribution of these associations
are as follow:
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Sector Skill Council (SSC)
Sector Skill Councils are UKs independent organizations and to provide the skills and
development abilities to people is the mission statement of these councils. Sector Skills Councils
(SSCs) are state-sponsored organizations that cover specific economic sectors in the UK. They
have four key goals:
o To develop skills in literate people
o To improve productivity
o To boost the skills in every sector
o To improve learning and development careers of people
SSCs achieve these aims by contributing to the development of National Occupational
Standards and Apprenticeship frameworks, proposed by UK Government. SSCs are
certified by the Government through the UK Commission for Employment and Skill.
Remarkable Contribution
There are 18 Sector Skills Councils and 5 SSC Bodies who work with over 550,000 employers to
define skills needs and skills standards in their industry.
SSC covered 15% of every sector in 2004 and Now SSC covering about 85 per cent of
the British workforce.
The annual performance report of SSC published by UK Commission is available on:
(http://www.ukces.org.uk/assets/ukces/docs/publications/ssc-annual-report.pdf)

Learning and Skill Council (LSC)
The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) was a non-departmental public body jointly sponsored
by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). LSC also served the sectors of UK
in exceptional way by contributing in the dissemination of government initiatives and plans. On
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march, LSC modified and replaced with successor Organizations like, Skills Funding
Agency and Young People Learning Agency. Skills Funding Agency delivers 4.1
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billion of skills training through contracts with over 1,000 colleges, private training organizations
in UK. Their highly effective supply chain, they contribute well in achieving the ultimate goals
of UK government initiatives. This is also a co-financing body for European Social Fund. The
Skills Funding Agency also hosts the Information Authority, an independent body that acts on
behalf of organizations involved in further education and training in UK.
Business Plan
The Skills Funding Agencys Business Plan 2013-14 sets out priorities and actions they will
undertake in future is, to deliver the ambitions of Government as set out in New Challenges,
New Chances, the Skills Funding Agency Priorities and Funding Letter and inflexibility and
Responsiveness in Skills.

Investor in People (IIP)
Investors in People is the UK's leading people management standard. It specializes in
transforming business performance through people.
Over a third of the UK's workforce uses Investors in People today, and employers do
so because they see a number of real business benefits.
Their vision is to make Investors in People the choice for leaders who want to deliver business
impact and growth. They have eight Investors in People centers across the UK According to
Canfield School of Management, in 2008 there were almost 40,000 organizations currently
working with Investors in People. These organizations employ over 7 million people in the UK.
As it is UK based, so the Standard has been licensed to a number of other countries through
Investors in People International and authorize in over 20 countries worldwide. By attaching
such a population of UK with it, Investor in People plays a big role in educating the peoples and
by developing the learning and skills abilities in them.

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National Vocational Qualification (NVQs)
There are so many other government initiatives, but the core ones are National Vocational
Qualifications, Investors in People and quality control Higher Education (HE). Each of these
impacts the development of the workforce and the UK conceptualization of HRD.
The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) supervise a complete framework of
vocational qualifications covering all professions and industries.
Benefits
NVQ Certificate is not just a training certificate. It is a certificate that certifies your skills.
It is a Nationally Recognized Certificate that confirms that one possesses skills up to the
respective NVQ level in that occupation.
NVQ System is a skill evaluation system & has a high tendency for a foreign
employment.
Since the Skill Standards are prepared with the contribution of professionally competent
personnel in the industry, such skills are consisted with functions to be carried out in the
Industry. Therefore, it is easier to seek jobs for NVQ certificate holders.
If NVQ certificate recipients are keen to gain higher qualifications; the system
encourages upgrading their career development.
These are some of the most important councils and institutions that mainly developing the
competency movement in UK by, serving the peoples with highly professional courses on
different levels depending upon their occupations, train the people with the help of industrial
professionals, assessing the abilities of people and developing the skills relevant to their talent,
highly contributing in the National Occupation Standards and Apprenticeship Programs etc.
Actually these have a big role in the history of education dissemination in UK and economy
growth.

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Sheffield Forgemaster International
Sheffield Forgemaster as they said that, A Global force in Steel Production and engineering.
Sheffield Forgemaster is the successor to such famous Sheffield names such as Vickers, English
Steel, Firth Brown and British Steel.
The origins of the company go back to the 1750s. However it was Edward Vickers, a traditional
miller owning a water mill on Mill sands, close to the centre of Sheffield, together with other
members of his and the Naylor family who really set the foundations for the business in 1805.
Over the years, Sheffield Forgemaster International has developed Quality Management Systems
and gained official recognition to national and international standards, showing commitment to
providing the best possible product and service to customers and a promise of continual
development and improvement. Sheffield Forgemaster International is now a parent company of
seven subsidiaries including the representative divisions in America and Europe.
SFILs Exposure towards Learning and Development
Sheffield Forgemaster International Limited (SFIL) came very close to closing in 2004, but now
has a turnover of 120 million pound. This obsession covers a big secret that SFIL used to regain
the losing worth and market share.
Actually the Exposure of SFILs workforce towards learning and Development
through different government initiatives was the main reason of the recovery
that Sheffield done by recovering its market share.
Out of 800 Sheffield employees, 70 apprentices are currently training for specialist careers to
ensure the long the long term security of the company. Sheffield Forgemaster after heavy loss
and hard period, when it is close to closing, understand the importance of UKs Government
initiatives for those untrained peoples that are unemployed or working on the lower level of
organizations. Actually those initiatives were to develop professional level skills and training in
peoples. These Government initiatives were handled by famous councils and organizations of
UK and serve their best levels to implement the government policies in training and educating
the people to better the condition of the economy. The overall institutions, organizations and
Bodies include:
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BTEC (Business and technology Education Council)
QCA (Qualification and Curriculum Agency)
Edexcel
NVQs (National Vocational Qualification)
SVQ (Scottish Vocational Qualification)
SSC (Sector Skill Councils)
LSE (Learning and Skills Council)
IIP (Investor in People)
Impact of these Government Schemes on SFIL and
Competency Movement
Sheffield Forgemaster International Limited (SFIL) takes the workforce to these institutions and
exposes them to learning new skills, apprentices, learning and development. SFIL by
understanding the worth of this education had successfully integrated their systems wit these
trainings and education and skills development system, as apprentices are trained in colleges and
workplace as well to achieve a range of qualification under NVQ, BTEC etc by participating in
work based key skills learning program. By exposing the employee workforce towards these
training and institutional programs, Sheffield observed a big gap between its previous and next
performance. There was a big figure explaining the productivity ratio improvement in the
operations of SFIL. Actually these Government initiatives are the main reasons that Sheffield
Forgemaster moved their competencies and recovered from 2004s Slump and became a standard
and one of the most successful companies of the industry as they said that they are the global
force in steel production and engineering. This is because of educating the workforce through
these programs.
The main and big impact of these Government schemes is that Sheffield Forgemaster by train its
employees under the professional and world famous institutions, gained its market share again
and by taking full advantage of these programs,
Sheffield has a turnover in million pounds with educated, skilled, trained and
professional workforce.
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Sheffield itself is now a big example for all industrialists, who treat the employees as ordinary
ones and dont train them to reduce cost, but they are unaware of the fact that they are going
towards dying side.

Role of Govt. of Pakistan for Training and Development

After the great success of UKs Government initiatives, these programs then not only limited in
United Kingdom but spread in all over the world with the help of those institutions and bodies
that play a big role in taking the UKs revolution. These bodies and councils then with
collaboration and authorization started their working in different countries and became the part
of almost every economy and became globalize. When story cames to Pakistan, government
welcome the opportunity to support its people with these training and development programs and
collaborate with different councils and bodies of UK.
Pakistan Government by inspiring from the UK initiatives took many steps in contributing
towards the training and development of people to enhance the opportunities to be globalized in
the field of study and education as well, and better the economy by creating future opportunities
for their people. By taking this idea of developing the people, Pakistan Government then started
different programs on different levels to train the employed people in the market and
unemployed ones as well. Government allocated different centers on different regions all over
the country especially in developed cities and recognized them with different UK-based bodies
and councils. In working for these programs, Government not only collaborates with UK bodies
but also launched their own multidivisional institutes and authorities in the country to better
handling of these initiatives.
Name of some Institutions, authorities and councils, UK-based and Non UK based, working in
Pakistan are as follow:
NIP (National Internship Program)
TEVTA (Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority)
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NAVTTC (National Vocational and Technical Training Commission)
Edexcel-BTEC
British Council
Ofqual
These are the some main bodies (UK and Non UK-based) that has a great contribution towards
academic and vocational success in Pakistan. These programs and bodies make the economy and
people of Pakistan Capable of learning different skills and abilities to develop their Careers.
These initiatives of Pak Govt. makes people able to handle the technological and global changes
and allow them to be globalize to perform international trade for their country.
TEVTA (Technical Education and Vocational Training
Authority)
TEVTA Pakistan was formed with the support of Pakistan Government by stating its mission to
enhance the Global competitiveness in Punjab, through a quality of productive workforce by
developing demand driven, standardized, dynamic and integrated technical education and
vocational training service.
TEVTA is the leading partner in the development of the Punjab workforce with world-class
competence and positive work values. Some of TEVTAs objectives and goals to achieve are as
follow:
Promote and provide demand driven technical education & vocational training
Upgrade teaching abilities, skills and knowledge of teaching staff.
Upgrade teaching equipment to the required standards.
Enhance the participation of Private Sector in training activities at Management level.
Assess the manpower training needs in the context of domestic and global markets.

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Pakistan Govt. role with reference to TEVTA
TEVTA (Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority) was formed through an
Ordinance (No XXIV of 1999) broadcast by Governor of the Punjab which has now been
replaced by TEVTA ACT (ACT X of 2010) Punjab.
Pakistan Governments great support with TEVTA makes a comprehensive act or ordinance in
2010 after passing by the Provincial Assembly of Punjab and assented to by the Governor of
Pakistan. This act has different clauses in relation to the following:
Incorporation, The Government may establish an Authority called as The Punjab
Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority. This clause is related to the
incorporation of TEVTA by the Govt.
Composition of the Authority clause related to the hierarchy of TEVTA nominated
by the Government, that consist of Chairperson and fifteen members, appointed by the
Government. Now the Chairperson of TEVTA is Mr. Irfan Ali.
Functions of authority clause, obviously related to the functions of TEVTA that is
to provide, technical education services to the society and in all sectors of economy
including, industry, commerce, livestock, trade etc and other functions.
Chairperson and Chief operating officer, clause includes the statement of the
Govt. that they appoint the Chairperson for five years. Also the appointment of chief
operating officer is part of this clause according to the terms of Govt.
In Meeting clause, Govt. set the criteria that the Authority itself controls the procedure
of meetings and all the responsible persons have to participate in meetings.
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Rest of the clauses includes Committees of Authority, Delegation authorities, staff,
funds, budget related clauses, bank accounts, audit annual report related clauses
etc.
The Role of Pakistan Govt. in learning and Development with reference to the TEVTA can be
seen in the ordinance of 2010 which government sets out on political level and support training
and skills development programs for people on higher level.

NIP (National Internship Program)
To initiate the NIP is another one of the best step in contributing towards the learning and
development in relation to these programs.
The National Internship Program is designed for the benefit of educated youth of Federal
Regions including different districts, which have completed sixteen years of education and
belong to from recognized universities or degree awarding institutions including external
candidates. The scheme is intended to provide financial relief to fresh graduates and also
to keep them engaged and interested in acquiring additional knowledge and real work life
experiences (Internships), so that facilitating them with employment in the country.
Thousands of youth from recognized universities awarding institutions in Pakistan in a whole
range of academic disciplines. In majority of cases, the gap between education/degree
completion and job placement results in wastage of abilities in graduates. On the other hand,
many public sector organizations also experience constant lack of officers in various
infrastructures. In such circumstances, temporary placement of proper numbers of unemployed
educated youth could be beneficial to the government and unemployed youth as well.
The goal of NIP is to connect the energy and motivation of educated youth as paid interns in the
public sector. This initiative can improve the performance of public sector through internship of
young, educated and motivated youth Provision of financial relief to young degree holders.
This National Internship Program especially contributed towards the Competency movement
in Pakistan.
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NAVTTC (National Vocational and Technical Training
Commission)
In December 2005, Government of Pakistan established the NAVTTC (National Vocational and
Technical Training Commission) as an apex body.
Under the National Vocational & Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC) Act, 2011 it is
responsible for setting-up of national occupational skills standards, to facilitate, regulate and
provide policy direction for Vocational education and training to meet the increasing demand for
the skilled labor at national and international level.
Being a federal agency for TVET, NAVTTC facilitates, regulates, and provides policy
direction for skill development in Pakistan.
NAVTTAC as the apex body is now developing and standardizing the Vocational education and
Technical Training by taking following initiatives:

Teachers Council
Accreditation and Certification
Develop training courses
Public & Private partnership
TVET surveys
Curriculum Development
Labor Market analysis etc.
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Technical Education & Vocational Training (TVET)
The technical & vocational system in Pakistan is administered by the Federal Ministry of
Professional & Technical Training, and four Provincial Labor & Manpower Departments.
According to the Pakistan constitution, the general policy planning and coordination (including
skill standards curricula, accreditations, certifications and national qualifications system) is the
responsibility of the Federal.
Government of Pakistan being aware of socio-economic development established National
Vocational & Technical Training Commission (NAVTTC) as an apex body on TVET which
works under the Ministry of Professional & Technical Education.
TVET in Pakistan is structured on Bi-layer Pattern:
Federal level
Provincial Level
On Federal Level, there is NAVTTC while on Provincial level, there are TEVTAs.
NAVTTC, being a federal agency, facilitates TVET stakeholders by giving policy
direction, coordination and regulation on TVET in Pakistan. Its major functions include
setting up of national skill standards, development of curricula, accreditation of
institutions, surveys, certification of courses, coordination among provinces, and training
of trainers.
TEVTAs, at the provincial levels, are the implementing bodies. Their major function is to
impart training and provide infrastructure and administrative facilities. They have also
been authorized to set their own skill standards, and certify courses at provincial levels.
TVET in working with NAVTTC, contribute largely in lifelong learning and
development of Pakistan by making people trained with professional staff and training
programs. This helps to create development in lifelong career of people and results in following
benefits:

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Gain training and qualifications that can get you a job.
Learn skills that employers want.
Count TVET towards HSC
Some TVET subjects may count towards UAI.
Use the TVET as credit and after school there is no need to repeat subjects.
Learn in an adult environment.
NAVTTC projects of Training and Development
National Vocational & Technical Training Commission as an apex body of federal agency of
TVET are working and developing very efficiently. They serve hundreds of peoples by
completing different projects on high level and facilitate different divisions and regions training
and development services. They are working with Private and Public sector and facilitating
TVET with surveys, labor market information, etc also working in their projects of training and
development by launching different governmental level schemes and facilitate the poor and
unskilled labor. Some of their Projects are as follow:
Hunarmand Pakistan
Funni Maharat Program
Vocational and Technical Streams
Training of Trainers
Developing Centers of Excellence etc.

These are the most important projects of NAVTTC that they take over the last few years. In
dealing with Hunarmand Pakistan arranged by NAVTTC, has a complete surveys and results
for the progress in their Hunarmand Pakistans Program and developing the number of trainees
in every province, every year.
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o The second project is Funni Maharat Program, in which NAVTTC develop different
people in their respective occupations and make them able to work for long life for their
career development.

o In working under Vocational Stream, they have a long list of 92 vocational trades with
variable duration in which team of NAVTTC is continuously working and play their role
to develop the competency movement in Pakistan.
o In working under Technical Stream, they have a list of 20 technical trades with variable
duration in which team of NAVTTC is continuously working and play their role to
develop the competency movement in Pakistan.

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o Master Trainers play central role in capacity building of teachers of TVET sector. The
quality of teaching and learning is wholly dependent upon the competency of teachers at
institutional level for which knowledge up-gradation of Master Trainers is prerequisite.
Presently, there are eleven Staff Training Institutes (STIs) which are responsible for
training & development of TVET teachers in the country.

NAVTTC in Public and Private Sector
In facilitating the TVET in their working, NAVTTC, in this way also connect with many Public
and Private sector facilitators through TVET, and work together for every sector by train the
labor in each region and by developing their career opportunities.
In TVET Public Sector, NAVTTC attached with different Institutions, Authorities and
councils, in their respective province. These connected organizations and authorities work and
serve their respective regions with their stated working policies of developing Pakistan. TVET
Public Sector is:
TEVTA - Punjab
TEVTA- Sindh
TEVTA KPK
TEVTA - AJK
TEVTA Baluchistan
NPO - National Productivity Organization
PVTC - Punjab Vocational Training Council
NTB - NATIONAL TRAINING BUREAU
TEVTA as the provincial agency of TVET also is the part of this Public Sector in every
province.
In TVET Private Sector, NAVTTC is not so exposed to this may because of working under
the Government of Pakistan and serve more to Public sector. TVET private sector is:
SDC-Skill Development Council
Chamber of Commerce
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Edexcel-BTEC
Edexcel is part of Pearson, the worlds leading learning company
Edexcel is the UKs largest awarding organization, offering academic and vocational
qualifications and testing to schools, colleges, and other places of learning in the UK and
internationally.
Edexcel vocational qualifications include NVQ and BTEC from entry level to Higher
National Diplomas. BTECs are recognized in more than 80 countries worldwide, and in
2009/10 over 1.1 million learners were registered onto a BTEC.
Pearson Education Ltd is offering a suite of academic and vocational qualifications in over 90
countries worldwide. They have built a reputation as a provider of modern education solutions
that help learners from all walks of life realize their full potential.
Through initiatives such as onscreen marking and administration, Edexcel is leading the way in
using technology to modernize educational assessment, support teachers and learners.
BTEC
BTECs are work-related qualifications suitable for a wide range of students. They provide a
practical, real-world approach to learning without sacrificing any of the essential
subject theory.
For over 25 years, weve championed work-related learning through BTECs and other vocational
qualifications. Over a million learners registered for BTECs and other vocational qualifications
in 2007-08, including more than 200,000 school students taking BTEC Firsts and Nationals
GCSE and A level equivalents.
Edexcel and BTEC are mainly the UK-based bodies but have a big success stories in Pakistan as
well in two perspectives.
In the perspective registered Students
In the perspective of Authorizes centers.
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BTEC Vocational Centre Listing in Lahore

Ala Lumen Modica
British Education & Training Systems (BETS)
Education Solutions
STEP Institute of Professional Development
World Education Centre

Ofqual
Ofqual responsibility is to maintain standards and confidence in qualifications. They look after
GCSEs and A levels, BTECs in England, and a wide range of vocational qualifications both in
England and Northern Ireland. They are also responsible to regulate the National Curriculum
Assessments in England.
They are independent of Government ministers and report directly to Parliament in Westminster
and the Northern Ireland Assembly. While they are independent, give advice to Government on
qualifications and assessment based on our research into these areas.
This is basically a big authorization centre of UK-based qualification bodies and issue licenses to
councils, bodies, commissions, authorities etc.

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Conclusion

This report was totally different from the previous ones that we dealt with related to this unit.
This is also very interesting and good for learning assignment. I have learn many things related
to importance of study and skill development in people and the role of the government. In the
course of coping up with tasks of this assignment, first of all, I have explained the importance of
skills development for the job and future opportunity and the importance of Human Resource
development in developing people and workforce of the companies. This thing is just to make
the flow and sequence of the rest tasks. Then I have discussed these initiatives took by the UK
government to spread the awareness of HRD and education of people. Then I explained different
councils, committees that support the government initiative by taking the objectives. Then to
complete the task, I have explained about the slump and reasons of recovery of Sheffield
Forgemaster due to these institutions and government steps. Further, I explained the competency
movement in development of UK. Then I have explained the role of Pakistan government in
taking the step for learning and development of the people by making different authorities in
Pakistan, like, NAVTTC, TEVTA, and NIP etc and also the collaboration with UK-based bodies
to spread the awareness of studies and Skill development through professional market training.

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Self Evaluation and Criticism
The main strength of this report is that I have made it in a better flow and perfect sequence by
mentioning some headings to make the base of the entire story. Every related task is incorporated
completely and authentic because most of the data collection is done from the official sites of
different authorities, councils, commissions discussed above. I have made this report
comprehensively and without taking to the point approach, took better approach to take the
concept and the story complete.

Weakness of this report is that the data required for this assignment are wide ranged and
involvement of foreign bodies is more in this assignment. The only source of data availability is
official site so the incorporated info. May match with others report but I have tried to make the
info in my own words. Data research is quite difficult for this report because it is different from
other assignments and to search data is quite difficult so may be I couldnt add some info I
report.

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talks-back
http://www.skope.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/SKOPEWP24.pdf
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http://www.qurtuba.edu.pk/jms/default_files/JMS/7_1/JMS_January_June2013_127-133.pdf
http://www.ukces.org.uk/ourwork/sector-skills-councils
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