I commend the job TEVETA is doing in Informal skills training through partnerships....however, I would like to suggest that it needs to invest in awareness more that mainly relying on partnerships... to get the right information to the right audience on informal skills so that more young people can benefit especially from most rural areas Walu
fantastic TEVET team to the work well done. What I may add is that as you go around there are a number of potential areas that can also help the economy of the country to grow and in align with the 2063 mw
Tevet is cross cutting in pillars and enablers of MW 2063 such that alot of products that chocks Malawi can be made I.e mini tractors, biogas for cooking, organic fertilizer, water treatment plant, waste water treatment plant, mini electric generation, flasks, distillation aparatus, briquets, cooking oil, soapmaking, juice making, cars, oxcarts,bricks etc
Last year the BICC was stormed with prople who wanted to attend training organised by Kondwani Kachamba Ngwira. I just want to know what Tevet did in following up on that. Is there a possibilory that we can include such we can incude the same on our curriculam
How would it look if the repositioning framework for TEVET can extend to inclusion of power relations tenets for transformative decision making processes among the informal sector constituents? I want to believe that transition from being a mere informal sector constituent to becoming an SME (even at the lowest level) will require positive mindshift of such individual in harnessing/embracing efforts aimed at their improving income and employment conditions. There are pockets of efforts and successes towards this and it would be great if TEVET qualification framework(or offers) considers integration of transformative power relations (mindshift if we want) in itself for maximised benefits for the graduates.
Vision MW2063 document cover page has volumes and volumes of stories which everyone of us gets excited about. The buildings we dream of to have by 2063 are safe explanatory. We have people who have travelled abroad commenting on the buildings they see as a yard stick of development. Construction trades play a centre stage in infrastructure development. However, I am getting worried as these construction courses bricklaying and carpentry register the least enrollment, meaning that the youth we expect to play a major role in realising the dream have lost interest in construction trades. I am interested to see how these courses can be made attractive to the youth of today and future.
Otherwise, we will end up hiring Chinese and neighbouring countries for workforce which will not auger well amidst sky rocketing unemployment among our youth.
Indeed there is a great need to reposition informal TEVET sector inorder to respond well to the needs of the economy and one area of focus as mentioned in the paper is agriculture. Why repositioning towards agriculture. TEVET responds well to the needs of the economy since it trains for skills which are appropriate for the economy unlike university education which trains for prestige and not skills or enterprise based. This can be evidenced by failure by luanar to address the hunger crisis that often hit the country now and again by producing graduates who can contribute towards addressing the problem through active participation in the sector.
I commend the job TEVETA is doing in Informal skills training through partnerships....however, I would like to suggest that it needs to invest in awareness more that mainly relying on partnerships... to get the right information to the right audience on informal skills so that more young people can benefit especially from most rural areas
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fantastic TEVET team to the work well done. What I may add is that as you go around there are a number of potential areas that can also help the economy of the country to grow and in align with the 2063 mw
ReplyDeleteTevet is cross cutting in pillars and enablers of MW 2063 such that alot of products that chocks Malawi can be made I.e mini tractors, biogas for cooking, organic fertilizer, water treatment plant, waste water treatment plant, mini electric generation, flasks, distillation aparatus, briquets, cooking oil, soapmaking, juice making, cars, oxcarts,bricks etc
ReplyDeleteLast year the BICC was stormed with prople who wanted to attend training organised by Kondwani Kachamba Ngwira. I just want to know what Tevet did in following up on that. Is there a possibilory that we can include such we can incude the same on our curriculam
ReplyDeleteHow would it look if the repositioning framework for TEVET can extend to inclusion of power relations tenets for transformative decision making processes among the informal sector constituents? I want to believe that transition from being a mere informal sector constituent to becoming an SME (even at the lowest level) will require positive mindshift of such individual in harnessing/embracing efforts aimed at their improving income and employment conditions. There are pockets of efforts and successes towards this and it would be great if TEVET qualification framework(or offers) considers integration of transformative power relations (mindshift if we want) in itself for maximised benefits for the graduates.
ReplyDeleteVision MW2063 document cover page has volumes and volumes of stories which everyone of us gets excited about. The buildings we dream of to have by 2063 are safe explanatory. We have people who have travelled abroad commenting on the buildings they see as a yard stick of development. Construction trades play a centre stage in infrastructure development. However,
ReplyDeleteI am getting worried as these construction courses bricklaying and carpentry register the least enrollment, meaning that the youth we expect to play a major role in realising the dream have lost interest in construction trades.
I am interested to see how these courses can be made attractive to the youth of today and future.
Otherwise, we will end up hiring Chinese and neighbouring countries for workforce which will not auger well amidst sky rocketing unemployment among our youth.
Indeed there is a great need to reposition informal TEVET sector inorder to respond well to the needs of the economy and one area of focus as mentioned in the paper is agriculture. Why repositioning towards agriculture. TEVET responds well to the needs of the economy since it trains for skills which are appropriate for the economy unlike university education which trains for prestige and not skills or enterprise based. This can be evidenced by failure by luanar to address the hunger crisis that often hit the country now and again by producing graduates who can contribute towards addressing the problem through active participation in the sector.
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