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Information for TVET Practitioners |
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An effective quality check in technical education is whether or not beneficiaries are willing to pay for their training. If there is a substantial pay back on their investment, experience suggests that participation will be enthusiastic. |
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Government usually plays a primary role in directly managing the delivery of core social services such as health education, social welfare and access programs. As governments downsize, they may look for multiple suppliers and providers of services in areas in which partnership participation is possible. As an example, in the Philippines, 80% of University education and of TVET is provided by the private sector. Most governments are still in a transition …Read full article |
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The Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training (MOLVT) in Cambodia through the support of the Asian Development Bank has in the last few years developed interesting models in developing its TVET system. Its recent Voucher Skills Training Program has successfully tried in 7 pilot provinces three models of training delivery: commune based, employer based, and center based.
Communes, through participative planning following the ILO TENA methodology, decided the programs that would best serve their communes given the amount of the voucher and the availability of training. The Provincial Training Centers of MOLVT which in the past have only been used to delivering training in the center regardless of the needs of the clientele have in this program learned to become more demand driven. |
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Governments in many developing countries today are accelerating their investments in technical and vocational education (TVET). The two objectives are to (i) advance the skills of its young population many of whom have had no opportunity to enrol or graduate in the education system and (ii) meet the needs of future industrial growth. With this investment comes a great opportunity to rethink what TVET needs to be. In rethinking TVET, there is the constant challenge that very little research has been done on the relationship between skills development and culture. How do we go about developing systems that fit into the country’s culture, values, traditions and social interaction as well as its particular level of development? Timing is everything. In the past, development banks and donors have funded a range of interventions that mimicked the “best practice” of the countries of origin of the consultants that were hired. But many have not taken off...or the take off was so cumbersome and protracted that it was clear the plane was not well designed...or fit for purpose. Why? Often, because at that particular point of the countries’ development, the donors’ idea of the required system had no resonance at all with the real issues on the ground. The designs sound good but when the project lands on the ground, it is the ultimate square peg being pounded into a round hole! |
