Towards a More Dynamic Skills Strategy
About 30 % of the skills needed only three years ago are already irrelevant today. The Covid pandemic has highlighted this lack of skills in many seeking employment today because … Read more
TVET Systems
Covering various topics realted to national TVET systems such as: TVET policy, TVET funding, TVET frameworks, TVET reform, TVET for sustainable development.
The Astounding Benefits of Developing Credit and Non Credit Part Time Learning
Part Time, Continuing Education (CE), Night School, whatever you want to call it, this form of learning is not only the hope for upgrading the workforce, but in cost recovery, … Read more
Basic Components of an HRD System in National TVET Operations
Human resources development (HRD) is at the core of all TVET operations. Training plans and course design for staff training make sense only in the context of long term staff … Read more
Demand for Higher level TVET Training?
There are millions of out of school youth who are unemployed or underemployed. This number increases per year. Efforts are being made to both reduce the school leaving rate and … Read more
Why Existing TVET Systems Are Failing
In many countries in South East Asia, the only growth figure equalling the demand for a skilled workforce is the unhappiness of employers with the graduates of existing TVET systems. … Read more
Public-Private Partnership: A More Effective Approach to Skills Development
As we look around, there is a scramble by most governments in developing countries to put investments in skills development/TVET institutions having realized that the only way their country can … Read more
9 Challenges to TVET in Developing Countries
Although many developing countries have committed resources to TVET and have made substantial progress, challenges still remain in most of the TVET systems. In cultures where resources reside mainly with … Read more
TVET and Human Trafficking
Recently, I heard a story from one of the NGOs working in Cambodia about a trafficked Cambodian expelled by the Thai police. Sadly, this man had lost his past, forgotten about … Read more
Street Based Learning
At the pinnacle of Education, we have the Harvards, the Oxfords, the UFTs and Laussane but in the real world, we have the streets. I’m not talking about life’s hard … Read more
Have we Made TVET too Complicated?
After spending millions on NQF and Standards and all the “stuff” to have homogenized TVET, is there any evidence at all that employers are the slightest bit happier with our … Read more