Your search
Results 34 resources
-
Research on TVET systems now comes up with various theoretical approaches. Apart from methodological issues, such as ‘typologies’, comparative criteria are crucial theoretical components by which existing TVET systems can be analysed. It is against this background—and not just by looking at the institutional and/or organisational pattern typical of a given TVET system—that underlying factors, such as the evaluation given to TVET, the different cultural imprints, the meaning of TVET and the...
-
The training of teachers of West Africa is carried out by the Academy of Rouen (France) and organized around an annual training plan approved by the AEFE. Each trainer only supervises twenty teachers for 5 days. Teachers from eight countries (Mauritania, Cape Verde, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso), come to Dakar for a week. We have been asked four times tn Dakar (Senegal) to provide training for teachers of West Africa. It is all about being trained in order to...
-
The study sought to examine the role the general public play in the development of technical and vocational education in Primary schools. These subjects were: Home science, Art and Craft and Agriculture as offered in Primary schools in the urban and rural setting of Eldoret Municipality and the surrounding areas in Kenya A random sample of eight (8) schools was selected for the study. The respondents included eighty (80) standard eight (Std VIII) pupils, thirty-one (31) teachers and ten (10)...
-
As Kaura Specialist Development Foundation (KSDF) explores various pathways to support Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET) for the youth in Bauchi state, Nigeria, this brief has been written to provide information on the current status of education and youth in Bauchi state, as well as to document relevant strategies and best practices utilized around the world for TVET. Positioned within the global framework, under Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the aim of this brief is to...
-
At national and international platforms, it has been maintained that TVET provides the needed employable skills and attitudes necessary for effective performance in the workplace. In many nations across the globe, some reform strategies to build on the inherent strength of TVET systems has been vigorously adopted, Nigeria not left behind. This paper explores the national TVET system in response to the emergent global issues on economic productivity. The following outlines provided a guide...
-
© 2014 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited All rights of reproduction in any form reserved. This chapter focuses on a study, which investigates the question: How do teacher education policies match teacher education practices in Anglophone West Africa? Teacher education policy in this chapter refers to action statements in verbal or written form made by national education authorities/agencies about teacher education, while teacher education practice refers to the work that teachers do. Using...
-
Stakeholders in the education sector in Kenya are concerned about low students’ participation in Technical Training Institutions. Despite the Government of Kenya’s efforts to upgrade infrastructure in these institutions, students’ participation has remained low yet the realisation of Vision 2030 depends on middle level training. Therefore this study was conceptualised to establish strategies adopted by Technical Training Institutions to support students access in these institutions. This...
-
Postconflict governments and counterparts have collaborated to provide skills training to communities as a critical postconflict development strategy. In these undertakings, the role of community members remains largely undefined. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive case study was to understand the perceptions held by rural community members regarding the role they played in influencing government's policy priority for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) as a local...
-
Nigeria as a developing nation cannot but strive to meet with the fast speed of technological advancement and the challenges in a globalize world nowadays. If she must address the numerous technological and job challenges, the issue of technology, skills and vocation acquisition must be tackled with all sincerity in the country’s education system. Highly industrialized nations have at one time or the other identified technical and vocational education as a transformational and development...
-
One of the observable problems facing most developing nations today is the non-availability of adequately trained and well-motivated professionals with the capacity to solving problems of national development. Many University graduate professionals complain of unemployment. However, there exist substantial employment opportunities in Africa and other developing nations but the major challenge being that, the skills to match up with imminent challenges are missing. There is, therefore a need...
-
South Africa is a developmental state that suffers from a lack of management capacity in the public service. Hence, a national imperative focuses on addressing talent management and building a cohort of qualified and competent public servants. The synergistic link between public sector management and the content of public administration can be associated with and contribute to addressing critical skills shortages in the public service. Training in this regard with the demand for and supply...
-
Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa, and more specifically the East African region, has the lowest rates of access to electricity in the world. On average, at most 15% of the rural population has access to electricity. Rural households and remote institutions use traditional energy sources such as charcoal, firewood, kerosene and diesel for generator sets, batteries and dry cell batteries. On the other hand, the region is one of the most promising in the world in economic development with growth...
-
Background: Generally, mental health care seeking in Ghana, a small, very religious West African nation of about 25 million people, is a pluralistic phenomenon, fraught with stigma. The advent of biomedical medicines, with pharmacists involved in providing medicines for mental health care, has somewhat lessened this stigma. Context: Has the pharmacy curriculum in Ghana adequately prepared students to be part of a mental health team? What is the attitude of pharmacy students and pharmacists...
-
[FRGMNT] … 16.7 101.6 34.1 6 6.1 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 Pre-primary Primary secondary TVET Tertiary Fig. 1. Education Access in Sub-Saharan Africa (% GER), 2011. Sources: Nsapato, Limbani (2012). Knowledge Production in the Knowledge Economy 295 Page 12 … [...]… RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Data for the study was gathered through qualitative research method, and theory-driven multiple case study approach was adopted (Yin, 2004) to examine the higher education system in Kenya and Uganda (East...
-
AN ACT of Parliament to establish the Kenya National Qualifications Authority; to provide for the development of a Kenya Qualifications Framework and for connected purposes
Explore
Our programmes
-
TVET in sub-Saharan Africa (GOVET-BIBB-BMBF)
-
Citations
(34)
- Chapter 03. Overview (3)
- Chapter 04. Conception (5)
- Chapter 05. TVET Actors (10)
- Chapter 06. Themes (6)
- Chapter 07. Systematic Review (8)
- Chapter 08. Models (7)
- Chapter 09. Inclusion (5)
- Chapter 10. State Authorities (1)
- Chapter 12. Standards (3)
- Chapter 13. Policy Implementation (2)
- Appendix 1. Annotated Bibliography (3)
- Appendix 3. SCR (1)
-
Citations
(34)
Theme
Location
-
Africa
(28)
- Eastern Africa (11)
-
Middle Africa
(2)
- Angola (1)
- Cameroon (2)
- Central African Republic (1)
- Chad (1)
- Congo, Democratic Republic (1)
- Congo, Republic (1)
- Equatorial Guinea (1)
- Gabon (1)
- Niger (1)
- São Tomé and Príncipe (1)
- Northern Africa (1)
-
Southern Africa
(4)
- Botswana (1)
- eSwatini (1)
- Lesotho (1)
- Malawi (1)
- Mozambique (1)
- Namibia (1)
- South Africa (4)
-
Western Africa
(18)
- Benin (2)
- Burkina Faso (2)
- Cape Verde (3)
- Gambia (3)
- Ghana (7)
- Guinea (1)
- Guinea-Bissau (1)
- Ivory Coast (2)
- Liberia (3)
- Mali (3)
- Mauritania (1)
- Nigeria (9)
- Senegal (3)
- Sierra Leone (2)
- Togo (1)
-
Americas
(3)
-
Caribbean
(1)
- Antigua and Barbuda (1)
- Bahamas (1)
- Barbados (1)
- Cuba (1)
- Dominica (1)
- Dominican Republic (1)
- Grenada (1)
- Haiti (1)
- Jamaica (1)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis (1)
- Saint Lucia (1)
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1)
- Trinidad and Tobago (1)
-
Central America
(2)
- Belize (1)
- Costa Rica (1)
- El Salvador (1)
- Guatemala (1)
- Honduras (1)
- Mexico (2)
- Nicaragua (2)
- Panama (1)
-
Northern America
(3)
- Canada (3)
- United States (2)
- South America (2)
-
Caribbean
(1)
-
Asia
(2)
-
Central Asia
(1)
- Kazakhstan (1)
- Kyrgyzstan (1)
- Tajikistan (1)
- Turkmenistan (1)
- Uzbekistan (1)
-
Eastern Asia
(2)
- China (2)
- Japan (1)
- Korea, Democratic People's Republic (1)
- Korea, Republic (1)
- Mongolia (1)
-
South-eastern Asia
(2)
- Brunei Darussalam (1)
- Cambodia (1)
- Indonesia (2)
- Malaysia (1)
- Myanmar (1)
- Philippines (1)
- Singapore (2)
- Thailand (2)
- Viet Nam (1)
-
Southern Asia
(2)
- Afghanistan (1)
- Bangladesh (1)
- Bhutan (1)
- India (2)
- Iran (1)
- Maldives (1)
- Nepal (1)
- Pakistan (2)
- Sri Lanka (1)
-
Western Asia
(2)
- Armenia (1)
- Artsakh (1)
- Azerbaijan (1)
- Bahrain (1)
- Cyprus (1)
- Georgia (1)
- Iraq (1)
- Israel (2)
- Jordan (1)
- Kuwait (1)
- Lebanon (1)
- Oman (1)
- Qatar (1)
- Saudi Arabia (2)
- State of Palestine (1)
- Syrian Arab Republic (1)
- Turkey (2)
- United Arab Emirates (1)
- Yemen (1)
-
Central Asia
(1)
-
Europe
(3)
-
Eastern Europe
(2)
- Belarus (1)
- Bulgaria (1)
- Czech Republic (1)
- Hungary (2)
- Poland (1)
- Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic (1)
- Republic of Moldova (1)
- Romania (1)
- Russian Federation (2)
- Slovakia (1)
- Ukraine (1)
- Northern Europe (3)
-
Southern Europe
(1)
- Albania (1)
- Andorra (1)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
- Croatia (1)
- Greece (1)
- Italy (1)
- Malta (1)
- Montenegro (1)
- North Macedonia (1)
- Portugal (1)
- San Marino (1)
- Serbia (1)
- Slovenia (1)
- Spain (1)
-
Western Europe
(2)
- Austria (2)
- Belgium (1)
- France (2)
- Germany (2)
- Luxembourg (1)
- Monaco (1)
- Netherlands (2)
- Switzerland (1)
-
Eastern Europe
(2)
-
Oceania
(2)
-
Australia and New Zealand
(2)
- Australia (2)
- New Zealand (1)
-
Melanesia
(1)
- Fiji (1)
- Papua New Guinea (1)
- Solomon Islands (1)
- Vanuatu (1)
-
Micronesia
(1)
- Federated States of Micronesia (1)
- Kiribati (1)
- Marshall Islands (1)
- Nauru (1)
- Palau (1)
- Polynesia (1)
-
Australia and New Zealand
(2)