June 01, 2022
Three East African Countries Adopt New Qualifications Framework for Technical and Vocational Training (TVET)
K Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania have teamed up to ratify the Qualifications Framework for Technical and Vocational Training (TVET). With financial help from the World Bank, the group aims to bolster professional mobility and allow mutual qualification recognition in Eastern Africa.
Titled East African Skills for Transformation and Regional Integration Project (EASTRIP), the group aims to promote regional mobility of students and skilled workers in Eastern Africa, according to an IUCEA communication issued on 26th May.
…We commit to mainstreaming the Regional TVET Qualifications Framework into national policies and qualifications frameworks, and in TVET Education Systems, and enforce effective implementation of the conceived purposes of the TVET Framework…
Under the guidance of the Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA), governments and institutions from Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania will plan and implement the framework for the policy. According to a communication sent out in the press, a source from the group stated, “We commit to mainstreaming the Regional TVET Qualifications Framework into national policies and qualifications frameworks, and in TVET education systems, and enforce effective implementation of the conceived purposes of the TVET Framework.”
According to sources, the new policy is beneficial for East African nations, in the sense that the framework allows economies to scale down to lower the cost of training for individual countries on specialised and industry certified programmes.
Once the framework is implemented, the core group plans to extend the scheme to other East African Community (EAC) that include South Sudan, Rwanda, and Uganda. Prof Mike Kuria IUCEA Deputy Executive Secretary told the press that the framework will contribute to the harmonisation of TVET education systems at continental level beyond East Africa within the ambit of African Continental Qualifications Framework.
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