TVET Institutions

Microsoft starts a new global skills initiative to bring to 25 million people worldwide by the end of the year. The action will bring more digital skills to those primarily … Read more

Industry expects TVET graduates to have both a theoretical knowledge of the technology they are studying and job skills to apply their learning in the workplace. As few teachers have … Read more

We have fixed traditions in education. The needs of the next level up are set by the professors who teach that level. It really makes sense for a system focused … Read more

Public sector institutions rarely have marketing plans. As they are essentially supply driven, they do not feel the need to respond to the market for their goods and services in … Read more

Parents of school age children usually hate TVET, unless they are German, Swiss or Austrian. In those countries, high level skills have high level status but for the rest of … Read more

International experience suggests that changing employer attitude is a long-term activity. Nevertheless, ensuring that the primary market has a positive feeling about Training institutions is absolutely essential if public TVET … Read more

Underfunded academic education often suffers diminished standards. Underfunded technical and vocational education usually doesn’t work at all! Waiting for Government to find all the resources needed has little point or … Read more

Most TVET educators and agencies have been complaining for years that TVET is often the last resort in education for many students. A number of them would rather wait out another … Read more

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

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