Vocational edu gets a boost at BBKDAV

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, March 1

Taking a cue from the increase in demand for vocational and skill-based courses post-pandemic, BBKDAV College has launched its own web application specifically to cater to the students of vocational education. The application BBK-VOCS has been designed to make life easier for the students of vocational courses of the college as a single platform for sharing of study material and interaction between student and teachers.

Dr Pushpinder Walia, principal, BBKDAV College, said, the shift from traditional courses to professional, skill-oriented courses has resulted in higher institutions adopting measures to innovate and upgrade learning process. “In the new normal, a lot has been said about technology-driven learning and re-inventing the classroom learning. The paradigm shift in higher education during the pandemic has now paced the process of making education multi-pronged. The application launched by our college has been designed to facilitate the students of vocational courses, given that there has been significant increase in students opting for vocational courses.” The college has also introduced five new vocational courses, including MVoc in Fashion and Technology, MVoc in retail management, BVoc in nutrition and dietetics, BVoc in healthcare and hospital administration, BVoc in tourism and hospitality management.

The lady behind developing the application, Kamayani, associate professor, PG Department of Computer Science at BBKDAV and nodal officer for BVoc courses, said the application is exclusive to students of college and it will ease out the complicated process of taking online classes through popular applications. “The UGC had cleared a grant of Rs6 lakh for our college to upgrade vocational education and we utilised the funds to come with this application. It is an upgrade from the traditional classroom learning and we have so far got a good response from our students. The teacher doesn't need to add each student for each class and students can just login using their mobile numbers, without disturbing the process of ongoing class,” she said.