Technical and Vocational Skills Development

Study Report on the Preparedness for the Vocationalization of Secondary Education in Africa

ADEA, Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 16:09

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.
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ADEA, through its Inter-Country Quality Node, and UEMOA unite to promote innovative mechanisms in the Education/Training/Work continuum

ADEA, Friday, December 1, 2023 - 11:21

On May 24^th, 2023, the ADEA Inter-Country Quality Node on Technical and Vocational Skills Development concluded a three-day forum to review national schemes on the implementation of critical actions for the improvement of technical and vocational training programs in the WAEMU member countries.
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Lessons and recommendations from African countries in the management of COVID-19 in TVSD sub-sector

ADEA, Friday, November 11, 2022 - 14:18

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.
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Technical and Vocational Institutions must build STEM skills in Africa’s Youth

ADEA, Wednesday, July 28, 2021 - 19:49

The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digitization in the workplace, sharpening the need for technical and vocational training aligned with Africa’s development needs and youthful population and focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
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Leaving no one behind by fostering Digital Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Africa

ADEA, Monday, December 21, 2020 - 22:14

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.
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African Development Bank and Association for the Development of Education in Africa urge partners to tackle skills mismatch

ADEA, Wednesday, March 4, 2020 - 14:46

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 4 March 2020 – The African Development Bank and the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) have called for stronger links between technical and vocational education and training and industry to equip young people with the skills they need to boost technological advancement, trade and growth in Africa.
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ADEA and its ICQN-TVSD assess the Education-Training-Work continuum in Africa

ADEA, Thursday, December 19, 2019 - 10:58

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.
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Rethinking the role of TVET in Future Work and Lifelong Learning, in light of Digitalization and the 4IR

ADEA, Tuesday, October 26, 2021 - 11:03

This report provides a general snapshot of the digitalization of TVET and skills systems in a set of countries. The primary data are derived from a desktop literature review on 8 countries, namely Angola, Gabon, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Mauritius, Morocco, Rwanda and Uganda and a set of questions administered through a questionnaire to experts and practitioners in the TVET sectors of Ivory Coast, Mauritius, Morocco, Rwanda and Uganda.
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Continuity and discontinuity in education and training systems in Africa

ADEA, Thursday, June 15, 2023 - 10:01

This study is the result of joint research that began in 2016 and was completed at the end of 2019. It is not the “end” in the sense that everything has been analysed and concluded, but rather it is the end of a stage that paves the way to other potential areas for joint work and coordinated investigations.
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