Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET): What Next?

Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and skills development for poverty reduction – do rural women benefit?

This paper discusses technical and vocational education and training (TVET) as well as skills development in rural areas, mainly pertaining to agriculture and related activities and explores existing gender differences. TVET has suffered from a focus on basic, and especially primary education, which led to the neglect of post-basic education and training and their non-inclusion in the UN Millen...

Gender-Mainstreaming in Technical and Vocational Education and Training

Gender differences should be considered in vocational high schools so women and men can develop their potentials without being inhibited by gender bias. Gender mainstreaming in vocational high schools is a strategy to integrate gender differences at all stages in teaching-learning process for achieving gender equality and equity. This research evaluates the implementation of gender mainstreamin...

A Technical and Vocational Education and Training Strategy for UNESCO

This outline review of issues for the UNESCO TVET strategy covers the crucial normative dimension of skills, capacities and qualifications; the role of new upstream policy analytic work on skills development; the concerns with capacity, critical mass and a skills development community of practice; the statistical challenge of skills development data; and the relation of these suggestions to the...

Vocational Technical Education and Training in Palestine National Strategy

1. Aims and objectives of the Palestinian Vocational Technical Education and Training system. This paper sets out the strategy for the development of a Palestinian Vocational Technical Education and Training (VTET) system. The need for development The world has experienced an unprecedented and ever increasing rate of technological development in this century. Technology, and information technol...

Vocational education and training