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Daily Ousaf
Sunday 20 May, 2012
Mian Akram Frid (Chairman Skill Development Council, Islamabad) meeting with Ministry of Professional and Technical Training. Chuodhry Qamar Zaman discussion with provincial stack holders on curriculum development and accreditation issues pertaining to TVET sector.
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The News
Saturday 17 March, 2012
TEVT reform plan discussed
Islamabad
A delegation of Skill Development Council (SDC), Islamabad, led by its chairman Mian Akram Farid, discussed the TEVT programme with Federal Secretary P&TT Qamar Zaman Chaudhary, says a press release.
Mian Akram Farid accompanied by Afzal Malik (board member) and Muhammad Riaz, CEO, visited the Ministry of Professional & Technical Training and discussed different issues being faced by the council with federal secretary P&TT.
Farid presented the annual report of the council along with a request letter for allotment of plot for the Skill Development Council, Islamabad. Qamar Zaman briefly explained the purpose of establishment of P&TT and discussed the future plans regarding TEVT reform programme. He appreciated the council for training needs of the country.
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The News
December
20, 2009
SDC offers new courses
Islamabad
Skill Development Council, (SDC),
Government of Pakistan, has unveiled an important
training programme to meet the ever-growing need of
the country, according to a press release.
The courses include Modern
Secretarial & Office Management Techniques from
December 12 to February 1, Professional Photographer
from December 24 to January , 30, and 3D Studio Max
& Adobe Photoshop from December 24 to January 30.
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Pakistan
Observer
December
10, 2009
SDC activities in 2010
STAFF REPORTER
ISLAMABAD—Skill Development Council
(SDC) has prepared a roadmap of its activities for
2010. This was revealed by Imtiaz Rastgar, Chairman,
SDC, here Wednesday, while inaugurating a training
course.
He said that it meets the special
needs of the industry, students and house wives. The
majority of training courses are on IT as this
sector has emerged as engine of economic development
at global level, he said. Chairman added that
housewives can play a crucial role in the economic
development of the country by getting required
skills that can make them productive. He stressed
the need of promoting entrepreneurship among the
youth for mastering dynamics of business world as
the job market was not expanding at required speed
to absorb the flood of new entrants.
He acknowledged the cooperation of
the industry in running the affairs of the Council.
Chairman said that the facilities available with the
Council can be used by the professionals for
arranging training courses of their fields. He added
that the Council was in contact with international
donor agencies to get short term experts for
conducting courses within the country so that
unskilled workers could get better training
facilities at affordable cost.
In today’s competitive age, the
quality and types of skills, required
internationally are fast changing and highly skilled
workers are preferred. Chairman added. Rastgar said
that the government has planned to send at least
600,000 skilled works abroad annually. The training
institutes in the country only produce 300,000
workers annually so there is dire need to expand the
facilities at war footing, he said.
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Daily
Times
December
10, 2009
SDC prepares roadmap for 2010
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Skill Development
Council (SDC), Imtiaz Rastgar on Wednesday said it
has prepared a roadmap of activities for 2010. While
inaugurating a training course, he said that the New
Year activities would meet the special needs of the
industry, students and housewives. Majority of the
training courses were on IT as this sector has
emerged as engine of economic development at global
level, he said. The chairman said housewives could
play a crucial role in the economic development of
the country by getting required skills that could
make them productive. STAFF REPORT
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The News
December 10, 2009
SDC to hire foreign experts for
worker training
By Israr Khan
ISLAMABAD: Skill Development Council
Chairman Imtiaz Rastgar on Wednesday said the
council was in contact with international donor
agencies to seek their help in training un-skilled
workers.
Inaugurating a training course, the
SDC chairman pointed out that if the industry fully
utilise existing facilities available with the
council, the number of skilled workers could
increase sizably.
The SDC was conducting about 100
courses annually and producing one thousand skilled
workers for the domestic market. It also prepared a
roadmap of its activities for 2010, he revealed.
Rastgar said the government planned
to send at least 600,000 skilled workers abroad
annually, adding training institutes in the country
only produced 300,000 workers annually so there was
a dire need to expand the facilities on war footing.
The council was in contact with
international donor agencies to get short-term
experts for conducting courses within the country so
that unskilled workers could have better training
facilities at an affordable cost. “In today’s
competitive age, quality and type of skills required
internationally are fast changing and highly skilled
workers are preferred,” he said.
He added the SDC met special needs of
the industry, students and housewives. A majority of
training courses were on information technology as
the sector had emerged as an engine of economic
development at the global level.
The SDC chairman said housewives
could play a crucial role in economic development by
acquiring skills which could make them productive.
Rastgar stressed the need of
promoting entrepreneurship among the youth for
mastering the dynamics of business world as the job
market was not expanding at the required pace to
absorb the flood of new entrants. He said the
facilities available with the council could be used
by professionals for arranging training courses in
their fields.
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Business Recorder
November 28, 2009
The role of skill development in
economic development
lmtiaz Rastgar
Strong skill development is the key
to the economic well-being of any nation.
The world’s largest economies have
flourished by developing and strengthening such
industries which can give value added, high quality
production and work with innovative technologies.
Pakistan, on the other side has been relying on
manufacturing and the export of low, value-added
textile-based products. The result is a narrow
export base with 63% contribution coming from
textile products and becoming a ‘Cotton Economy’.
Feeling the shift in the world’s
economic landscape, Pakistan has t0 create a strong
export driven manufacturing base. The major focus
should be on modernizing and strengthening the
manufacturing sector of Pakistan in order to venture
out and seek new markets, enter into technology
partnership for adopting innovative technologies and
creating competitiveness for global positioning. For
achieving these goals, we have to formulate various
sectoral policies and adopt tariff rationalization.
We must have a complete industry invest framework
and improve Custom General Order (CGO) by removing
defects, discrepancies and anomalies. Apart from
these, our focus should be on identification of star
performers in the manufacturing sector, by profiling
need assessment of various sectors, and their
subsequent development for preparing them to become
champion industries for going global. Alongside, our
awareness programmes through seminars / workshops
and conferences, should specifically be designed to
apprise the manufacturing sector about the support
offered, by way of different schemes, to promote
export of products and services of the key
activities being performed by the specialized public
sector bodies.
In its endeavors to stimulate a
proactive thinking among the manufacturing concerns,
in response to globalization, we must organize
Pakistan’s participation at a leading international
specialized trade fairs for giving them exposure to
compete with nations like China, Malaysia and
Thailand. These nations are enjoying a competitive
edge by having high-tech industrial activities, with
higher production volumes, innovation and product
diversification, enabling them to pave their way for
integration into the global supply chain.
This will be just a beginning and we
have a lug way to go to boost our manufacturing
sector to make it the driving force for economic
growth. The manufacturing sector must strive hard to
drive business by achieving high value addition,
adopting leading technologies, achieving economics
of scale and venturing into new market. The task is
enormous, but achievable, with the support of the
government and manufacturing industry.
Skill Development can play a vital
role in achieving the goals as it would lead to
quality production, which ultimately will create
global demand. Well trained and energetic manpower
can reduce the cost of production. The SDC is
playing its due role on generating skilled manpower
for the industrial sector, with its assistance, on
the basis of public-private cooperation. The
facilities with SDC are available for the private
sector on soft conditions. Now, it is up to the
industries and professionals to use them at the
optimum level.
The current state of the engineering
industry is not satisfactory. It needs the attention
of the government. The capabilities to add value to
primary products must be enhanced so that we could
move to the indigenous production of plants and
machinery. The developed countries bad adopted this
route for their economic development that is why
engineering goods constitute a major portion of
world trade, with a contribution of 60% of the total
world exports. But the export of Pakistan is
confined to conventional surgical instruments,
cutlery, sports and other light engineering
products; Pakistan still is far behind in exports of
engineering goods, as compared to the newly
industrialized countries like Korea and Malaysia. A
fundamental requirement for it is to devise industry
- friendly, short-term, as well as long term,
policies with emphasis on skill development.
The writer is Chairman Skill
Development Council, Islamabad.
Pakistan
Observer
November
21, 2009
SDC training schedule
Staff Correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Skill Development Council has announced
training schedule of next three months, here,
Friday. According to details, 28 courses will be
held during the months of December 2009 to February,
2010. Majo9rity of these are IT related. Other
subjects covered are secretarial skills, office
management techniques, professional photography,
entrepreneurship, effective communication and
exporting skills, in the current month, the Council
has completed four courses on Graphic and Webpage
designing, Project Planning, Web Development and
entrepreneurship. These were attended by 24
participants including officials of prestigious
public and private institutions such as PAF, Telenor,
and European Commission in Pakistan. It may be
recalled that Skill Development Council is working
on public-private cooperation basis and generating
its own funds.
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Pakistan
Observer
November
03, 2009
SDC can meet
demand for Skilled Manpower
SHR JAHFERY
ISLAMABAD- Imtiaz Rastgar, Chairman, Skill
Development Council has said by exploiting our skill
resources to the optimum, we can meet the full
demand of industry’ for skilled manpower, Which
could boost our industrial production and foreign
exchange earning as it will improve and increase our
exports.
He was addressing the participants of a training
course at the conclusion of the training here,
Tuesday. He added that nations enjoy respect today
because of advanced technology. Though skill
development is not the panacea of all ills of
Pakistan but it is must for the variable start of
any industrial development strategy in this country,
he said adding that we must give skill development
its due share for materializing the dream of
national advancement.
To carry forward the skills acquired in the training
course, he suggested several follow-up courses to
the participants. He assured fullest support in
building their capacity by imparting new skills and
knowledge sharing. He sensitized them towards
prioritizing new skills in future programmes oft
their lives. He appreciated the interactive and
participatory techniques, including role-play and
group work o ensure meaningful training.
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The Daily News
August 26, 2009
SDC courses ends
Islamabad: Skill
Development Council (SDC) has completed its two-
month summer vacation programme with the conclusion
of five courses in the current month.
The courses include
Auto CAD, Primavera, M Office and net surfing,
secretarial & office management, and high impact
presentation skills, said a news release issued here
Tuesday.
These courses
attracted a good number of students, house wives,
and mid career professionals. Special efforts were
made to develop entrepreneurship skills of the
participants, enabling them to start their own
business, as the job market has limited
opportunities currently on account of recession. —
APP
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The Business Recorder
August 26, 2009
SDC complets
two month programme
ISLAMABAD:
Skill Development Council has completed its two
months summer vacation programme with the conclusion
of five courses in the current month of AutoCAD,
Primavera, MS Office and Net surfing secretarial &
office Management, high impact presentation skills.
These attracted a good number of students, house
wives and mid career professionals. This was
disclosed by a press release of SDC issued here on
Tuesday. It said that special efforts were made to
develop entrepreneurship skills of the participants
so that they could start their own business as the
job market has limited opportunities currently on
account of recession.
It adds that three
students from Bangladesh attended one of its courses
as the Council has been geared up some of the finest
and trained professionals.—PR
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The Daily Times
August 11, 2009
SDC organise series of courses
ISLAMABAD:
Skill Development Council has arranged nine courses
on AutoCAD, secretarial skills, fiber optic and
wireless Communication, Programmable Logical
Controller (PLC) civil structural design and project
planning. These were basically made for vacationing
students and mid career professionals in order to
develop entrepreneurship skills and laying the
ground for expansion of employment opportunities.
The SDC is geared up with some of the trained
professional to meet the demands of students and
professionals, said a statement Monday. APP
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Business Recorder
August 12,2009
SDC unveils training programme on AutoCAD
Islamabad:
Skill Development Council, Deputy Chairman, Muhammad
Aslam Bhutta has unveiled a comprehensive training
programme on AutoCAD here on Tuesday.
While inaugurating he
said that this will introduce students to the
processes tools and methodology of computer drafting
with AutoCAD the world’s leading software for design
and drafting. He underlined the acquisition of
knowledge and skill for eliminating of poverty and
unemployment from the country. This multipurpose
class is intended for those who have little or no
experience with AutoCAD.
During the course,
students will acquire basic skills used for AutoCAD
software and design techniques toward various
applications.
Bhutta said if you
love watching your work become a reality? Then
design and shape the world around you with the
powerful flexible features found in AutoCAD design
and documentation software. It is important that
more and more AutoCAD users are venturing out of
their traditional and familiar two dimensional world
to explore the possibilities of 3D space. Thanks to
many software enhancements in this area, 3D is an
increasingly useful and widespread tool. However,
the leaps into three dimensions require some changes
in thinking and drawing habits.
Out of seven
participants three are from UET, Taxila and belong
to Bangladesh one each from Oxford Brookes University.
London, Pakistan Meteorological
Department, Air University and Telenor Pakistan.
Referring to the
programmes of the Council, Deputy Chairman said that
it is focusing to maximize the potential of
participants through the acquisition of knowledge
and skill. It also provides extra ordinary on-target
training and motivation of honesty quality, self
respect, performance and integrity to all
participants to prepare the nation to respond to the
needs of the country—PR
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The NEWS
July 07,2009
SDC courses
Islamabad
Skill Development
Council (SDC) has started a special training
programme for students and house wives in the
ongoing summer vacations under which 12 different
courses will be held in the current and following
months.
The courses include
Accounting Software, MS Project Planning & Control,
Communication Skills & Personality Development,
Programmable Logical Controller, Secretarial Skills
& Office Management, AutoCAD, High Impact
Presentation Skills, MS Office & Internet Surfing,
and Still Photography — APP
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Industrial
Bulletin
July, 2009
Making the Most of
Vacation Time
Skill Development Council
Islamabad Unveils Summer Package
Skill Development Council,
Islamabad has brought exciting new Training Programs
for vacationing students and mid career
professionals during this summer season. This will
make the summer vacation for them more productive
and enjoyable, while developing entrepreneurship
skills among them and laying the ground for the
spread of employment opportunities. Skill
Development Council, Islamabad aim to sharpen the
skills they already know, to develop them as skilled
executives or entrepreneurs, and eventually earn a
living which could help them finance their education
and boost their family income.
Vacations are to enjoy, but
some intelligent folks make use of their vacations
in an intelligent way. They indulge themselves in
summer training programs that not only allow them to
see life from a different perspective but also gain
some amount of practical experience as well. That’s
when the role of Skill Development Council comes in.
SDC specialized in providing summer training
programs for ambitious students out there. That way,
one can easily know the finer things about the
workplace and get to learn about careers in a better
way as well and the best part is that vacations are
utilized in the most eminent way possible.
Skill Development Council is
geared up with some of the finest and trained
professionals as they offer summer trainings to
students on various levels. In this way, students
get the freedom to craft their future in the most
apt manner.
Discounts: SDC
Islamabad is offering a 10% discount on its all
courses taking place at the premises of Council in
July and August. These include its popular and
important following training courses:
·
Peachtree (Accounting Software)
·
MS Project (Project Planning &
Control)
· Communication
Skills and Personality
Development
·
Programmable Logical Controller (PLC)
·
Secretarial Skills and Office
Management
·
Auto CAD
·
High Impact Presentation Skills
·
MS Office and Internet Surfing
·
Still Photography
·
Primavera
This highly practical and
intensive two months training program is the ideal
training opportunity for Students, unemployed people
and mid career professionals, who need a solid
grounding in all the core skills that will help them
get ahead.
These training programs are
designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the
latest tools, tactics, techniques and technologies
by boosting knowledge and skills of those already in
employment and those about to enter the market and
take the students up to the level of working with
their own projects and participants will not go
empty handed as they will be awarded with a
Certificate as well. So what are you waiting for?
Just make the best out of your vacations by training
yourself at Skill Development Council.
SOC Islamabad focus to
maximize the potential of participants through the
acquisition of knowledge and skill, it also provide
extra ordinary on target training and motivation of
honesty, quality, self respect, performance &
integrity to all participants to prepare the nation
to respond to the needs of the country.
Skill Development Council
Islamabad is a quality training provider for
Students and Professionals for continuous skill up
gradation and to promote skills which help Pakistan
to become globally competitive.
For more information on these
and other courses or to take advantage of the 10%
discount on the July-August training program, please
visit the website: www.sdc.com.pk.
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The NEWS
June 24,2009
Skill development
vital for economic prosperity
Islamabad
Skill Development Council Chairman Imtiaz Rastgar
here on Wednesday underlined the importance of
acquisition of knowledge and skill for elimination
of poverty and unemployment from the country.
While inaugurating a course ‘Home IT Business’, he
said that the course will pave the way for students,
mid career professionals and unemployed people to
start their own IT outsourcing business for world
market at a low cost. He predicted that after
completing it the participants will be able to
address online business inquiries posted on various
outsourcing portals. He noted with satisfaction the
presence of female participants in the course and
said that they will be able to start their ventures
from their home and utilise their skill for economic
betterment of their family remaining within social
bound.
Referring to the programmes of the Council, he said
that it was focusing to maximize the potential of
participants through improving their skill and
focusing on target training, motivation of honesty,
quality, self respect, performance and integrity so
that they could respond to the need of the country
Imtiaz Rastgar also gave a multimedia presentation
on value addition society and skills for motivation
of the participants. — APP
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The Business Recorder
June 10, 2009
LAHORE: Skill Development Council, Ministry of
Labour and Manpower is launching a new training
programme titled as “Home IT Business” from June 20
in Islamabad.
Announcing the launch of Home IT Business Course,
SDC said “it will empower individuals to start their
own IT outsourcing business for world market at a
very low cost. Participants shall be taught powerful
tools for self-employment leading to flexible
lifestyle for people who have what it takes to dump
the 8-5 schedule.
It
promised that this training programme will enable
the individuals to start their venture from home in
a very low cost. In a span of six months these
trained individuals will be earning handsome money
through their ventures.
SDC
said after completing this course the IT graduates
(fresh or experienced), students and professionals,
could capture online business inquiries posted on
various outsourcing portals. It encouraged women to
join this programme, as this programme will enable
them to start their ventures from their home and
utilise their university education while remaining
within social bounds.
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Daily Times
June 10,
2009
SDC introduces
new It Course
ISLAMABAD: Skill Development Council (SDC) has
introduced a new training programme ‘Home IT
Business’ Tuesday. The aim is to pave the way for
students, mid career professionals and unemployed to
start their own IT outsourcing business for world
market at a low cost. A press release revealed the
16-hour training would start from June 20. Females
especially housewives were encouraged to join as it
would enable them to start their ventures from their
home and utilise their specialization for economic
betterment of the family. STAFF REPORT
