tailieunhanh - Partnership between tvet institutions and business-industry community in developing countries

The Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions play a signicant role in providing skilled workforce required for the development of all developing nations. In order to remain competitive in the world market, any organization should have highly skilled workforce that can keep them to be economically viable in a global economy. An effective School-Industry partnership in TVET can be a useful strategy in providing workforce training and maintaining knowledgeable employees. With the fast changing requirements and demand for manpower on newer trades and higher levels of skills a large number of business-industry sectors are unable to recruit appropriately trained skilled workforce required in the industries. This results in lacking employability for many TVET graduates who are remaining unemployed. The major reason of this employability gap is the inability of the TVET institutions to adapt or update their curricula and training programs according to the need and demand of the job markets. Various studies have revealed that this gap is primarily due to lack of linkages with the business-industry community and understanding of their requirements. With this in mind therefore the TVET providers in many developing countries are now giving much attention to this aspect and some of the TVET institutions have made signicant progress in establishing partnerships with business-industry community for sustainable development of their TVET programs and in order to enhance their TVET student’s skills and make them career ready. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a research work in Africa to explore existing School-Industry partnerships within TVET institutions in the Republic of Kenya and uncover the impacting challenges and prospects taking into cognizance that while partnership between TVET institutions and business-industry community differ in their complexity and breath, there are certain commonalities that emerge (1). | Partnership between tvet institutions and business-industry community in developing countries