@article{Bhurtel_2017, title={Voyage from the Himalayas to the Highlands: Reflections in Technical Education}, volume={3}, url={https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/JTD/article/view/18231}, DOI={10.3126/jtd.v3i0.18231}, abstractNote={This paper reflects on my journey from the Nepal to the United Kingdom UK) as a student initially and then as a National Health Service (NHS) Grampian’s employee. The purpose of developing this paper was to draw insights on the factors that pulled me as an urban youth for studying and<br />living in the UK and to present the significance of skills-based technical education for the changing job market. I used analytic autoethnography to carry out this research, where I presented past epiphanies and consecutively interpreted the strong memories of those lived experiences and observations to broaden my theoretical understandings. I argued based on my lived experiences that the scope of the market based technical education is globally prevalent. For this, I have sequentially presented my stories of self-realizations and skills acquisition in the developed country such as the UK from the theoretical ideas of ethnoscapes, new and intelligent urbanism, and credentialism. Moreover, I have illuminated the relevance and significance of market based technical<br />education courses for competing not only in Nepal but also in the global job market of the UK through self-reflection. Findings in this paper suggest the need for the international students to be pre-equipped with market based skills and to opt for market oriented subjects preferably from the field of technical education.}, journal={Journal of Training and Development}, author={Bhurtel, Anup}, year={2017}, month={Sep.}, pages={54–63} }