Browsing by Author "Gaba, Ashok"

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    Distance Education and Human Resource Development: A Tracer Study of Vocational Educational Programme of IGNOU
    (2008-09) Gaba, Ashok
    PCF5 Sub-theme: Livelihoods // Distance education can play a crucial role in the economic development of a developing country like India by meeting human resource requirements. It caters to the requirement not only those who are unemployed but also of those who are on the job. Their knowledge can be updated through continuing education programmes. Vocational education and training like other forms of education and training is an investment in human capital, which brings benefits in the form of enhanced labour productivity, and higher levels of output and training. One of the most important functions of the education sector is to provide skill and technical manpower to various sectors of the economy. It is widely argued that the structure and pattern of education, especially at the secondary stage, has to be purposefully re-oriented towards Vocational and Technical Education to join together with the projected future pattern of employment avenues and requirements. Of late, most of the countries of the world have given due importance to vocational education at senior secondary stage to provide diversification of educational opportunities so as to enhance individual employability, reduce the mismatch between demand and supply of skilled manpower and provide an alternative for those pursuing higher education. // Paper ID 131
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    Distance Education and Human Resource Development:Undergraduate Learners’ Perception towards Employability
    (2006-10) Gaba, Ashok
    PCF4 // Human resource development in developing counties like India is imbalanced with respect to almost all kinds of social and economic aspects. There are disparities in terms of quality and standard of higher level of education, as well as the level of the educational attainment of different segments of the population. The quality of education and therefore of the labor force is a very important consideration in the context of human resource development. Distance education is considered to have significant influence on the quality of human resources in very many diverse ways including spreading necessary awareness among those whom such awareness might help, e.g. the large number of uneducated people, particularly women and also making available vocational and life skills to its clients. // In any distance education system, the learners (and therefore the graduates) hold the key in so far as the study of the effect of perception of the value of degree on programme completion, learner satisfaction, and future employment is concerned. This paper reports the findings of a study on the perceptions of bachelor level arts and computer science graduates towards programme choice, facilitation and individual perception of the value of their undergraduate degree. // Paper ID 157