ITI Wood Working Courses for Public

 

Wood Working Courses

Today is  21/10/24. I'm just wishing everyone a beautiful week ahead! Hopefully, we all get to experience, new things, try out new gigs, meet with new people or donate something to someone who is in need! 

When I opened facebook, this pic caught my attention. It's a pic of a wood working course by a technical college in US. While I saw this pic, I was thinking of many ITI, Vocational Schools, and Polytechnics spread around Kerala. 

Of the many ITI, I know one in Chakai, Central Polytechnic at Vattoorkavu and Women's Polytechic at Kaimanam.

So, here's the plan to make these institutions open to public for short term courses ( weekend)

1. Start a separate Facebook and Instagram account to promote such courses and re-brand these institutions. 

2. Provide short term courses ( wood working class or basic welding class, basic car repair class or basic astronomy class, graphic design class, embroidery classes, pottery classes, gardening class, class on how to grow mushroom, pickle making, squash, bakery classes, hospitality training, nail art, crochet work, AI, Workshop on how to use ChatGPT, Robotics workshop and race, Anime drawing, How to do doddling, etc)

3. Either make use of the existing faculty or hire experts from outside. If existing faculty is used, then provide a decent allowance based on the number of enrollments. 

4. Create captivating visuals of the workshop and promote it using influences 


What's the Objective:

1. Make these institutions relevant in this era. We all know that the popularity of these training institutes has gone down. Such short term lessons in their premises is a way to monetize this space, provide training to public, and also income for many other staff who assist this program. 

But, who will Take the Initiative 

To make such activities work, it should be headed by a person who can create a good marketing plan and also bring right talent. Also, the lessons or courses selected must be relevant to the people. For example, the right branding of this programme is required. It requires a different mindset - different from the way govt programs work. 

Whom So Ever IT May Concern! ( Letter to Director of Technical Education, Trivandrum)

What if I mail a copy of this post and send as a suggestion to the Director of Technical Education or the Minister who takes care of Technical Education or Vocational Training in Kerala?

Will they entertain or consider or just do nothing about such suggestions? 

Probably, they would say that we already have such courses. But, what I'm saying is in a complete re-branding of ITI or Polytechic institutions. To make such initiatives effective, these programs should be headed by a separate mentor, not the Principal of the concerned institution. 

What do you say?

Curious Konnections

P.S - I would be interested to join for a basic carpentery  class where they will teach people how to make a wooden shelf over the weekend or a bird house or a wooden bench to take it to home.What do you think? 

Sample pic for reference: 👇

Basic Carpentry Course ( Source: Insta)