- vocationalisation should be given much greater support than it is having at present.

- Degrees should be delinked from jobs; employment must be seen through independent assessment of knowledge and skills. The scheme

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of "empowering people for work" under which every student is expected to undergo work expreience and learn supw is the best recommendation of the perspective paper.

Seminar organised by institute of education and culture, hyderabad, the university of hyderabad and the osmania university, hyderabad at the central institute of english and foreign languages, hyderabad on 20th21st october, 1990

- the implementation of vocational programmes has not yielded the desired results. Besides, in the absense of reliable data on manpower requirements, particularly in the predominantly unorganised sector, the vocational courses are liable to become irrelevant as is happening now. Therefore, there is a need to undertake systematic and scientific manpower studies in all sectors-industrial, agricultural and services - for making vocational programme relevant and meaningful and enabling the products to become employable. Then alone these courses become acceptable to people.

Shri k.n. Nigam, teacher, hindu inter college, rudauli, state bank colony, rudauli, 225411, distt barabanki (30th october, 1990)

- after passing class viii examination, students should be admitted to vocational courses on the basis of psychological and aptitude tests.

- Management training should also be given as part of vocational education.

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