Competency Based Training and Green Skills for Work and Life in Post-2015 Africa: The Role of TVET
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Experts from many international, regional and national agencies generously share their views, experiences and findings on skills, helping policy-makers among other stakeholders to understand the linkages between education, training and the world of work, and how to integrate skills into national development planning to promote employment and economic growth.
Anticipating and matching skills needs
Anticipating and building skills for the future is essential to a rapidly changing labour market. This applies to changes in the types and levels of skills needed as well as in occupational and technical areas. Effective methods to anticipate future skills needs and avoid potential mismatches include: sustained dialogue between employers and trainers, coordination across government institutions, labour market information systems, employment services and performance reviews of training institutions.
Skills policies and strategies
Skills and employment policies should be viewed together. The full value of one policy set is realized when it supports the objectives of the other. For investments in education and training to yield maximum benefit to workers, enterprises, and economies, countries’ capacities for coordination is critical in three areas: connecting basic education to technical training and then to market entry; ensuring continuous communication between employers and training providers so that training meets the needs and aspirations of workers and enterprises, and integrating skills development policies with industrial, investment, trade, technology, environmental, rural and local development policies.
Training quality and relevance
African economies must intensify efforts towards the achievement of rapid growth, and the development of a workforce that is empowered with necessary and continuously upgraded skills and knowledge to enhance the attainment of their development goals. However, the workforce training should be performance and standards based, learner-focussed, flexible, and closely oriented to workplace practices that are derived from carefully selected competencies. Also, production activities should take utmost cognisance of the need to replenish and not to endanger the environment. Based on these concerns, the Commonwealth Association of Polytechnics in Africa (CAPA) has chosen to deliberate on the role of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in competency-based training and green skills for work and life in post-2015 Africa.
Conference sub-themes are as follows:
1. Rationale and Challenges of Competency Based Education and Training ;
2. Strategies for mainstreaming Competency Based Training in TVET Institutions: The Place of Curriculum Modularisation;
3. Development of Vocational Qualifications Framework for Enhancement of Competency-based Training;
4. Green Technologies for Sustainable Development: Evidence-based Practices and Prospects for increased participation of Youths and Women; and
5. Designing of Learning Space and Digital Teaching Methodologies for Improved Access to TVET.