Kathmandu, July 5: In a bid to promote the concept of 'learning by earning', the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for skill enhancement and apprenticeship of the CTEVT students.
The MoU is expected to ensure
skills enhancement of the students of the Council for Technical Education and
Vocational Training (CTEVT) through workplace learning.
As per the MoU, the CTEVT students
will be hired in the projects under the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and
Irrigation in the apprenticeship model.
The MoU was signed on Thursday by
Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Shakti Bahadur Basnet and
Minister for Education, Science and Technology Sumana Shrestha.
On the occasion, Minister Shrestha
viewed that our education should ensure skills to the workforce to meet the
demand for our labour market. "We can retain our youths in the country
only by providing them employment," Minister Shrestha added.
Likewise, Minister Basnet stated
that the MoU is aimed at developing labour culture and imparting practical
skills by taking the students to the workplace.
He termed the MoU a milestone to
connect the CTEVT students to the workplace and labour.
Saying that such best practices
would be expanded if the MoU were well implemented, Executive Director of Nepal
Electricity Authority (NEA) Kulman Ghising shared the performance of the
interns hired by the NEA for its different projects is highly
praiseworthy.
The Ministry of Education shall
develop the curriculum of the concerned themes while the Ministry of Energy
shall ensure economic support to the Ministry of Education as per the existing
rules of the CTEVT. (RSS)