Why Industry Hesitates to Partner with Government
Industry and government are not natural partners. The job of industry is to make money for shareholders. The function of government is to support civil society and, as a corollary, … Read more
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Culture: A Challenge to TVET
In TVET today, 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 … Read more
Is the Knowledge Gap Getting Bigger?
Knowledge is now the hot stuff in today’s techno world. It is the commodity that matters, it is traded, it attracts capital and advantages someone who has it. Unhappily, it … Read more
7 Reasons Why Career Planning is a Must in TVET Institutions
Have you taken career planning seriously in your institution? Or in your own personal life? I wish I had. Maybe, I would have followed a different career path or at … Read more
6 TVET Institutional Requirements to Develop Linkages with Industry
Building linkages between the TVET system and Industry varies greatly from country to country. Much of the failure in building these linkages in emerging economies has come from attempts to … Read more
Education and Industry Partnerships in TVET: 11 Effective steps
In some economies, Technical school managers and teachers are drawn from Industry and Business and have many continuing personal and professional links with the private sector. LinkedIn shows these networks. … Read more
3 Key Reasons Why TVET Needs to Strengthen Links with Industry
The Current State of TVET Relationship with Industry In most emerging economies, educators and Industry operate in different worlds and often have little contact with each other. Frequently, their social … Read more
Understanding Technical and Vocational Education and Training
TVET has been talked to death. The determination of academics to square the circle seems almost unstoppable. TVET is aligned with academic education but it has quite a different series … Read more
Are TVET Institutions Quietly Falling Off the Edge in Today’s Digital World?
Knowledge is the economy’s rocket fuel. The key skill is the knowledge of how to learn. Individuals who can’t learn are soon redundant. Companies that don’t learn are vilified and … Read more
Why Marketing is Important in TVET
The traditional educational community does not easily accept the marketing of an educational service or product. As Government servants and educators, the concept of marketing is foreign and the notion … Read more