Analyzing the Vocational Education System: Benefits and Challenges

This essay provides an overview of the vocational education and training (VET) system, emphasizing its role in skill development and learning. It explores the benefits of VET for enterprises, including low-cost education and easy employment opportunities, highlighting how VET enhances productivity, job satisfaction, and reduces absenteeism. Furthermore, the essay addresses the drawbacks of VET, such as shorter program durations and limited flexibility, which can impact students' career choices and academic progression. The analysis concludes that a well-managed VET system is crucial for national cultural development, reducing unemployment, and aligning worker skills with enterprise needs, ultimately improving economic conditions and fostering a skilled workforce. Desklib offers a platform to explore similar essays and study resources for students.

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Introduction
Education tends to play a key role in providing facility to both social and economic
progression. It has improved both the functional and analytical abilities which tends to open up
opportunities for individuals. Both skill and knowledge are considered as a primary engine for
economic growth and development of any country (Acevedo et al. 2018). Countries which come
up with higher and better level of knowledge and skill can easily respond to various challenges
and issues with respect to globalization. Technical and Vocational Education tends to play a key
role in the human resource development of any county by building skilled manpower.
In the coming pages of the essay, an idea has been provided with respect to vocational
education system for skill development and learning. After that two benefits of VET for
enterprise has been discussed in details. The last section of the essay mainly deals with
challenges which the enterprise can encounter in this VET sector.
Discussion
Technical and Vocational education can be considered to be helpful for improving
industrial education and productivity. It can be considered to be useful for improving the overall
quality of life. Technical education can be considered to be a remarkable contribution to the
economy of the country (Eckstein 2016). It can easily provide proper manpower production
which works as per the need of the different organization. Technical education aims to cover
certain number of courses and programs which are related to engineering domain. Vocational
education can be defined a much larger sense of education and skill at various levels. It can
easily vary from both formal and non-formal based programs. Central Sponsored scheme on
vocational secondary education aims to provide educational opportunities. It is mainly done so

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that they can enhance the employability and reducing the mismatch between demand and supply
(Fedorov & Tretyakova, 2016). The scheme aims to provide administrative structure and area of
vocational surveys and preparation curriculum.
Benefits of VET
Low- cost Education: People, government and organization tend to invest in VET
because of positive outcome, higher wages, and improved productivity. Apart from this, it will
also help in economic growth of the organization. Apart from this, VET can also bring non -
economic benefits lower rate of absenteeism and low crime rate (Hampf & Woessmann 2017).
VET focus on relationships like impact on productivity or health or even insufficient attention
which has been given. The fact can be taken into account how benefits can impact the
organization. It can easily help in gaining much higher productivity by improving the level of
skills. Apart from this, it can also help in increasing the overall job satisfaction and reducing
absenteeism. By making use of new and existing research covering in large number of European
based countries. VET can easily provide some advantages which are considered to be difficult to
express in monetary domain. Both organization and government which can fully take account of
the benefits of VET at the time of investing it. The biggest benefit of VET is that it does not only
influences the likelihood of invest but also can be important for various understanding
(Hanushek et al. 2017). With the help of better understanding, it can also influence the
likelihood of overall invest in VET. It can be defined as an important factor for organization to
compete with given high quality of services. It creates a platform where various skills and
attitudes can easily combine for overall success. VET benefits have focused on certain number of
relationships like impact on overall productivity or even health. Insufficient attention can focus
on how VET benefits can easily interact in organization.

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Easy Employment: There are some social benefits of VET which are difficult to
understand that the economic ones. It is mainly embedded in certain number of ways in which
the whole society can function. Economic benefits of VET can be easily considered to be very
much concrete and punctual in nature (Kamasheva et al. 2016). There are some social benefits
which are characterized by overlapping effects. Both economic and social benefits are directly
connected to each other. A much lower rate of participation in VET can easily result in high
amount of unemployment which will ultimately create an unstable society. By the help of well-
established VET system, it can easily connect to the change in the job needs for VET and new
challenges in job requirement. There are some countries which are very less to social benefits in
comparison to economic ones (Lunev et al. 2016). The overall social benefits are mainly
reported by analyzing the changes in the society which is a result of VET programs.
Drawbacks of VET
Vocational or Technical colleges aims to provide some specific programs which are
much shorter and focused than four-year traditional degree. This particular vocational program is
made available to trade schools or community colleges (Pugacheva et al. 2016). It can easily
offer a huge number of career along with vocational degree programs.
Shorter Duration: Vocational school programs are given in four years in private college.
Along with degree programs offered at community colleges which are given for full-time study.
Students can also gain certification in some of the degree programs which requires nine to 12
months for earning (Fedorov & Tretyakova, 2016). With the help of short time for gaining
degree where the student can easily invest less money in their education. The programs can be
very much excellent option for various students who can easily focus on some traditional

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college-based program. Vocational school merely focus on required training and tends to have
reduced academic programs. The given courses are not seen in academic in comparison to some
of the traditional colleges. The students of vocational education tend to provide low score at the
time of job competition. It is considered to against the applicant of traditional college.
Limited Flexibility: The biggest drawback of this type of education is that it comes up
with limited flexibility which is provided. If a student starts up with limited mechanic program,
then after crossing halfway the student wants to go into the business. It will ultimately result in
loss of both money and time. A student who wants begin with a four-year program needs to take
up the requirements in the early stage (Hampf & Woessmann 2017). It can easily provide a
proper kind of courses and program. In general career degree program mainly includes a
collection of business classes and experiences. It can provide much diverse kind of career option.
The major drawbacks of making choice of VET is that the given credit are not that much
respectful like the normal colleges. They might not be considered to prerequisites if the person
aspires to attend college later on. Despite the low amount of cost with are there will vocational
schools and training programs are considered to be much higher related to it. Students come up
with huge expenditure on the required tools and equipments (Hanushek et al. 2017). It also tends
to focus on given materials and associated workshop which are needed at the time of conducting
programs.
Conclusion
From the above pages, it can be concluded that this essay is all about VET (Vocational
Educational and Training). Proper use of VET system is considered to be root for a national
culture of the country. The overall effect can be easily seen at various level like micro, meso and

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lastly macro level. All the given level is considered to be very much strong in nature and difficult
to separate. Positive effects at the micro level can easily generate effects at various levels like
meso and macro. VET benefits are nothing but outcomes that occur that at individual level. At
both organization and social level, the overall effect can be addressed. VET can consider being
as a useful way for reducing unemployment and protecting people from being unemployed. It
tends to play a key role in improving the overall economic condition in most of the disadvantage
regions. It will help in reducing any kind of skill mismatch between both worker and enterprise.

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