Theme Papers
10:00am Afghanistan | 10:30am Maldives, Pakistan | 11:00am India, Sri Lanka | 11:15am Nepal | 11:30am Bangladesh, Bhutan | 12:00nn Myanmar | 12:30nn Thailand | 1:30pm Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore | 3:30pm Papua New Guinea | 5:30pm Fiji
Background
In the new Digital infrastructure world, the demand for 'industry ready skilled and trained resources' are ever on the raise. With the Infrastructure world staying in the low per-capita productivity area in comparison to other leading industries, the infrastructure industry owners are looking for 'Digitally Skilled' and industry trained resources to meet their productivity needs. In this brief talk, we would first take you through the evolution of Digital processes in the complete life-cycle of Infrastructure industry. And then we would relate it to career opportunities and learning pedagogy opportunities that exists in this new world of Digital Infrastructure Engineering. We will also talk about how the Bentley Education program can help you develop engineering skills for the real world and take the next step in your career!
Theme Papers
Group Work
Online Classes
Projects Works
Online Classes
Projects (Individual)
Background
The establishment of Cooperative societies were created long before the advent of the fair trade movement to help workers improve their livelihoods and protect their interests. Cooperatives are organizations of people who have the same needs. Cooperatives are operating in an environment that requires exceptional or transformational leadership qualities and changed management systems for the success of associations of cooperatives today.
Transforming federations requires change. One of the perceived bottlenecks in effecting change in federations relates to the lack of change leaders and a lack of capacity to develop a vision and implement change. Transformative leaders need to have a clear vision, a solid target objectives for the federation and have the strong motivation and leadership skills to drive change.
Leadership is about managing change and guiding growth in fluid environments. Leadership requires a ‘change capable culture’ that gives space to lead. Moreover, to sustainably grow, federations or cooperatives are shifting from viewing leadership development as a “nice to have” to a “need to have”. Leadership development programs are mission critical to federations’ or cooperatives’ organizational success.
Thus, CPSC is conducting the webinar to make aware and realize the need of having outreach programs in each subject, manage it, and obtain the results from it.
Focus
The webinar session is designed to provide a pIatform for reflecting on the principles of cooperatives/federations and discuss how the leadership and management dynamics and skills can contribute to achieving the objectives/targets of the cooperative/federation.
Objective
The program aims for participants to:
Theme Papers
Project Tasks
March 11, 2021 | 9:30am Afghanistan | 10:00am Maldives, Pakistan | 10:30am India, Sri Lanka | 10:45am Nepal | 11:00am Bangladesh, Bhutan | 11:30am Myanmar | 12:00nn Thailand | 1:00pm Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore | 3:00pm Papua New Guinea | 5:00pm Fiji
Background
Alumni is one of the important components and is well-established in the TVET sector. Not all TVET institutions have equally understood the value of alumni and this perception needs to be changed because of many benefits it provides. Understanding alumni engagement in the TVET management is vital for the TVET institutions for many reasons like it increases the employability, enhances TVET institute image, it can support in maintaining quality education and provides materials & funds to the institutes. TVET professionals need to broaden the scope and move the focus away from funds only and more on the non-monetary support roles played by TVET alumni. TVET institutions and alumni relationships should be converted into an intentional and mutually beneficial partnership with the purpose of students’ success and betterment of the TVET institutions. Alumni engagement impacts positively on all sides involved- the TVET institution, the alumni and current students. When the TVET institutions go through the international institutional accreditation, alumni plays an important role in convincing the accreditors on their roles, importance, and activities carried by them.
Alumni are seen as valuable as they are the key sources of information to define institute-level strategies and enhance study programs. By having alumni, TVET institutions can develop or revise curriculum involving the alumni members as they know as equally as the industry experts the demand of the latest skills and knowledge in the labor market.
Alumni are one of the key stakeholders for TVET institutions and their contribution to the achievement of TVET institutions strategic goals is evident. In the Asia and Pacific, it is observed that countries like the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore and their TVET institutions have given high importance to alumni and they are managing it very well. Thus, the time has come for all the TVET intuitions to give priority on establishing alumni and get maximum benefits from it. Therefore, CPSC has designed the webinar to share knowledge and practices of Alumni management in TVET institutions and how to strengthen the relation between the two.
Focus
This webinar session is designed to provide concept, good practices, and management of Alumni for maximizing its benefits to the TVET institutions. The Alumni & TVET institutions roles and strategies on strengthening relationships will be explained in the webinar.
Objectives
Theme Papers
Project Tasks
Projects
Theme Papers
Projects
Presentations
Group Work Activities
Theme Papers (online)
Projects
Online Exam (Individual Participant)
April 27, 2020 | 9:30am Afghanistan | 10:00am Maldives, Pakistan | 10:30am India, Sri Lanka | 10:45am Nepal | 11:00am Bangladesh, Bhutan | 11:30am Myanmar | 12:00nn Thailand | 1:00pm China, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore | 3:00pm Papua New Guinea | 5:00pm Fiji
Webinar Presentation
Background and Focus
The Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions in the 21st century play a significant role in the social and economic transformation of society. Critical to that role is a quality management system that assures quality throughout the input, process and output sequence, while providing feedback for continuous improvement to meet the changing needs of its customers. This will maximize the extent to which graduates from TVET institutions will meet the dynamic needs of stakeholders, including students, employers and the nation at large.
Quality can be defined in many different ways. It can mean excellence, zero defects, uniform quality, satisfying customer needs or operational improvement. Quality is always bound to satisfying customer needs. Quality is about making organizations perform for their stakeholders – from improving products, services, systems and processes, to making sure that the whole organization is fit and effective.
A quality management system (QMS) is a formalized system that documents processes, procedures, and responsibilities for achieving quality policies and objectives. QMS helps coordinate and direct an organization’s activities to meet customer and regulatory requirements and improve its effectiveness and efficiency on a continuous basis. Good quality management systems can enhance the organization’s brand and reputation, protect it against risks, increase its efficiency, boost its profits and position it to keep on growing.
Accreditation, as one of the three primary modes of quality assurance, is often considered a step towards establishing a culture of quality – sustained and maintained by defining objectives, developing capacity to achieve them and evaluating whether they are achieved or not. Being a gatekeeper of quality at its threshold, accreditation determines the adequacy of human, physical, and information resources, reinforces results-based approach to evaluation, and provides a firm foundation for its institutions or programs.
The Asia Pacific Accreditation and Certification Commission (APACC) is a regional accreditation and certification body established through the Seoul Declaration 2004, with the Colombo Plan Staff College (CPSC) as the lead organization. It aims to provide international accreditation and certification services towards quality management system of TVET institutions. Its goal is to improve the quality of TVET institutions to produce competent and highly skilled workforce.
In its continuous efforts to widen the reach and strengthen human resources within and outside Asia Pacific region, CPSC is organizing this webinar to enhance participants’ understanding of quality management systems, accreditation as a tool for improving the quality of TVET institutions, and overview of APACC accreditation system.
Objectives
At the end of the webinar, the participants are expected to:
Facilities Required
To join the webinar, each participant should have the following:
April 23, 2020 | 9:30am Afghanistan | 10:00am Maldives, Pakistan | 10:30am India, Sri Lanka | 10:45am Nepal | 11:00am Bangladesh, Bhutan | 11:30am Myanmar | 12:00nn Thailand | 1:00pm China, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore | 3:00pm Papua New Guinea | 5:00pm Fiji
Webinar Presentations
Background and Focus
One of the current focus of CPSC is sustainable development in CPSC training programs. This development is possible on transformative change in the training delivery process. What does “transformative change” mean in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
On the other hand, due to the current COVID -19 situation in Manila, CPSC has suspended its operations and allowed work from home. Therefore it is important to introduce WEBINAR in CPSC and conduct training programs online.
A webinar is an online seminar that turns a presentation into a real-time conversation from anywhere in the world. Webinars allow large groups of participants to engage in online discussions or training events and share audio, documents or slides – even when they’re not in the same place as the meeting host or in the same room where the event or presentation is taking place.
The next webinar topic is Teacher to Educational Leader. As Technical Education and Vocational Training has globally been recognized as the most effective tool for increasing employment and poverty reduction.
Though teaching has traditionally been a career in which year one looks much the same as year thirty, I’m pleased to see that this is starting to change. Teachers in years one, five and twenty bring different strengths to the table, and also have different professional growth needs. In their first years of full-time teaching, our associate teachers often produce results similar to their more experienced peers. Experienced teachers to serve in teacher-leader roles. Like all professionals, teachers’ skills mature over time, and our goals and priorities shift too, to short-term career as an educator/ educationist, to mid-term career as a head of an educational institution, to long-term career as member of educational policy making bodies. Educational leadership at every level, who strive to create positive change in educational policy and processes. Educational leadership involves working with and guiding teachers toward improving educational processes in Technical and Vocational Education and Training institutions.
Careers today are roughly around forty years long. And it is important to internalize that it is a marathon, not a sprint. A person’s career can broadly be split into two halves, the first half and the second half. The length of the two halves is not important and does not have to be mathematically equal. We have observed many people through the journey of their careers, those who successes, less successful, looked like they had a good start but did not achieve their potential, they had a bad start but seemed to overachieve, had twists and turns, had a more steady, straight path. We can conclude that the more significant career achievements are often in the second half of the career and most people succeeded in the first halves of their career, very few in the second.
There are misconceptions that if we work hard and spend years at work, then we are growing our skills, knowledge and capabilities, if we succeed in the first half of our career, we will automatically succeed in the second half of our career. Time spent at work is not equal to experience.
As we get to senior levels, two things change: first, the complexity of the problems /issues we deal with, and second the number/quantity/breadth of the issues. At a senior level, the number of people who want your time is far greater than you have, the number of things that you need attention is far greater than the number you handled earlier and the number of simultaneous things you have to manage is far greater than what you have ever done. The breadth is such that one day in the morning, you could be discussing the long-term strategic plan and in the afternoon the same day, you might have to deal with next week’s issue.
Your career will grow only as much as you are able to grow as an individual and as a professional. If you manage to grow your skills, knowledge, decision making ability, judgement, influence on others, communication skills etc., then you will experience career growth. Career growth is directly proportional to and is a function of real individual growth. If you stop pushing yourself at any stage, your career growth also comes to a screeching halt.
Technical and Vocational Education & Training is a complex, dialectical and exciting opportunity which can potentially transform society for the better. Thus governments, educators and policy makers alike must ask the questions about how we can prepare our teachers to lead the present and future TVET to thrive in this transforming world.
Teachers determine the success of every TVET institution. This requires the right framework conditions under which each individual can and may contribute his or her skills and services in the sense of agreed – more qualitative and quantitative – results. This was valid at all times and becomes even more important in the post pandemic period.
Focus
This Webinar on Teacher to Educational Leader aims to provide an online training platform for CPSC member country’s participants; to understand the dynamics of different verticals of TVET education system, and TVET teachers learn to develop as administrator, manager and leader. Furthermore, this webinar will discuss how to write the mission statements for TVET institutions, qualities to be developed by TVET teachers in the VUCA world and /or post pandemic period.
Objectives
Facilities Required
To join the webinar, each participant should have the following:
National Conference: Re-Imagining - Technical and Vocational Education and Training for the Changing World: Perspectives and Practices
National Seminar: 21st Century Skills for Ensuring Employability of TVET Graduates
Study Visits: Institutions and/or industries in Nepal
