Apprenticeship act, TVET and Skill development legislations of Bangladesh

Apprenticeship act, TVET and Skill development legislations of Bangladesh

Apprenticeship Act:

 

Apprenticeship is a training strategy with requirements that should be clearly stated in national laws and regulations. The national legal framework should provide the guidance from the policy level. These laws and regulations establish minimum requirements for protecting the welfare of the apprentice, such as:

  1. The length of training,
  2. Type and amount of related instruction
  3. Supervision of the apprentice
  4. Appropriate ratios of apprentices to regular workers
  5. Apprentice selection and recruitment procedures, etc

 

Apprenticeship process was introduced in Bangladesh in the 1850 through an act designed by the British Administration. Given the nature of the 1850’s act, it was found to be inadequate to function properly these days. This resulted in a new ordinance in 1962. Through this ordinance, candidates received apprenticeship under the umbrella of BMET.

 

Now Apprenticeship act is the part of Bangladesh Labour Act, 2006 where Chapter eighteen indicates the application, special definition related to apprenticeship, form of tripartite advisory committee, obligations of employers, the prevalence to relief from income –tax, advice and guidance to employers, obligations of apprentices, powers of entry, inspection and delegation of powers.

Bangladesh Technical Education Board act:

 

Bangladesh Technical Education Board established by the then “The Technical Education Act 1967 and was the first legal power as well as binding for BTEB. After long interval in 2018 Bangladesh Technical Education Board act, 2018, passed in November 14, at the Bangladesh National parliament with following legal activities

  1. Manage, Accreditation and Control Technical and Vocational Education and Training
  2. Determining the TVET courses, developing curriculum and preparing syllabus
  3. Prepare books and learning materials according to the board curriculum
  4. Conduct Examination, assessment, determining fees, result publication and certification of TVET
  5. Student admission in BTEB accredited TVET institute/ organization and developing rules and regulation for inter organizations students and trainee transfer
  6. Inspection, Supervision and Monitoring BTEB accredited TVET providing institute/ organization
  7. Recognition of the Prior Learning Regardless this act
  8. Establishment of Information Management System and it’s Maintenance for BTEB accredited TVET providing institute/ organization
  9. Collection of the TVET related information regarding need of the labour market through Industry Skill Council
  10. Develop competency based training and assessment standard and curriculum in cooperation with Industry Skill Council
  11. Determining eligibility criteria for National Technical Vocational Qualification Framework
  12. Providing Scholarship, Medals and Awards in TVET field
  13. Contract with other organization to fulfill the purpose of this act and
  14. Performing other duties as instructed by the government

 

National Skills Development Authority act:

 

National Skill Development Act, 2018, passed in October 01, at the Bangladesh National parliament with empowering and getting the mandate of following legal activities

  1. Prepare National Skill Development Policy, Strategy and Action Plan
  2. Coordination, monitoring and evaluation of activities for preparing Key Performance Indicator(KPI), unique training curriculum and their implementation to develop skill human resource according to the need of domestic and international labour market in government and private training
  3. Publish the information related to the need of the national and international labour market forecasting
  4. Recognition of the Prior Learning Regardless this act, where applicable
  5. Supervising and monitoring the skill related project and program
  6. Perform necessary arrangement for developing quality of training, certification and mutual recognition
  7. Constitute Industry Skill Council and provide necessary
  8. Strengthen the industry linkages
  9. Initiate any other skill development activities in own consideration and
  10. Perform Any other responsibilities as per instruction of government or governing board

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