The Study of Technical and Vocational Education and Training Needs of Dairy and Cooking Oil Producing Companies in Tehran Province

Abstract

Education is not merely provision of information from trainer to learner, but the point is that this person requires practical educations for some of its tasks. By considering industrialization of manufacturing processes, economic development cannot happen without considering the Technical and vocational education and training (TVET). Since the work force in the current period without technical capacities and skills can hardly play its role efficiently. Thus, by taking into account the importance of such educations, the current research is conducted in order to detect the technical and vocational educational courses required by dairy production and edible oil production industries. In fact, the main objective of this research was to specify technical educations required in industries. In order to fulfill the objectives of study, 4 manufacturing companies (two companies in each industrial field) were selected. Totally 198 persons were selected as sample of research. Gathering the data required was performed via questionnaire. In order to analyze the data and determination of technical and vocational educational needs and prioritizing them the one-sample T test and weight score were applied. The findings of research have indicated the technical and vocational educational needs and the priority for each course fore each industry.

Keywords: education, educational needs, technical and vocational trainings, producing companies