Technical and Vocational Skills Development

The vocationalization of secondary education in Africa has the potential to succeed and achieve the intended outcome because the current vocational education profile in Africa can be corrected. Many people know about vocational education but with limited understanding; consequently, it operates with limited human and material resources. The preparedness for the vocationalization of secondary school education is evident because the footprint of vocationalization of secondary school education is visible across the continent.

The ADEA Inter-Country Node on Technical and Vocational Skills Development (ICQN-TVSD) initiated consultations with its country focal points between June 2020 and June 2021 to monitor and evaluate the responses of the ICQN’s member countries to the global health crisis related to the COVID-19 pandemic that began in December 2019.

How can people acquire the skills needed to digitize work to take on new tasks? What must TVET strategies look like to bring technology closer to learners, teachers and managers? These and other questions were discussed on November 26 during the online colloquium on DTVET co-organized by ADEA and Festo Didactic.

The Inter-Country Quality Node on Technical and Vocational Skills Development (ICQN-TVSD) of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) organized from 9^th to 10^th December 2019 in Abidjan a continental workshop to promote and assess the achievements of the education-training-work continuum in Africa.