Role of Vocational Training Effectiveness and Employment Outcomes in Sustainable Quality Education

Alpa Sethi, Kshitiz Jangir (), Ritu Toshniwal and Rishi Vaidya
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Alpa Sethi: Manipal University, Assistant Professor, School of Business and Commerce
Kshitiz Jangir: Manipal University, Assistant Professor, School of Business and Commerce
Ritu Toshniwal: Manipal University, Assistant Professor, School of Business and Commerce
Rishi Vaidya: Manipal University, Assistant Professor, School of Business and Commerce

A chapter in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Sustainable Business Practices-2024 (ICETSBP 2024), 2024, pp 500-511 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Rapid change in social, economic, and ecological environment bringing persistent challenges in every nation. The demand of knowledge, skills, education is changing drastically and coping with such changes is the big problem for every economy. From the time when SDG have emphasized more on vocational training program for sustainable growth, nations initiated to focus on vocational training programs and constantly updating training accordance with the changes as vocational training playing a significant role in manpower development and sustainable quality education. It is well known fact that efforts will be productive if the efforts are effective in nature. Government bodies, institutions are putting tremendous efforts towards making vocational training effective, but results are still questionable. With raising importance of vocational training worldwide, this is the original empirical study to examines the effectiveness of vocational training and explore its relationship with employment outcomes and quality education. Therefore, the aim of the paper is to identify those critical factors who can contribute to make training more effective. Secondly, paper is not also examining the role and contribution of effective vocational training in employment outcomes but also identifying the relation between quality education and employment outcome. The study collected data from 513 trainees and 25 training centre managers through self-administered questionnaire. Various tools like factor analysis, descriptive analysis, structured equations modelling, and analysis of variance was applied to analyse the data. The result uncovered four major factors: Trainee’s characteristics, Environment support, Training atmosphere and Interaction process among parties which can enhance the effectiveness of vocational training. Furthermore, result also stated that there is a positive relationship between effective vocational training and employment outcomes and positive relationship between quality education and employment outcomes.

Keywords: Vocational Training; Quality Education; Sustainability; Employment outcomes; Skill Mapping; Training Effectiveness; Sustainable Development Goals; SDG4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-544-7_33

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