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Technical an Vocational Skills Development In
Africa The Role of Teachers By Jan Hjort
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• Presentation
• Jan Hjort
• Skilled as a mechanic and educated as Teacher in
  vocational education and training
• Vice-president of the Union of Education Denmark
• Responsible for cooperation with the teacher
  organisation (ONP) in Mozambique
• Worked in the Vocational Education and Training
  system in Mozambique twenty years ago

Technical and Vocational Skills Development In
Africa The Role of NGOs24.02.09 / Jan Hjort,
Vice-president
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• Main challenge for Technical and vocational
  education and training (TVET) in Sub-Saharan
  Africa
• Too few students
• Poor quality
• No connection between education and the
  business/industrial sector

Technical and Vocational Skills Development In
Africa The Role of NGOs24.02.09 / Jan Hjort,
Vicepresident
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Too few students Only 5,2 of secondary school
students are in TVET in sub-Saharian Africa
(average OECD 18,6 ) 2,3 of Mocambiques
budget for education goes to TVET
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Africa The Role of NGOs24.02.09 / Jan Hjort,
Vicepresident
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• Poor quality
• Building and equipment (TVET is expensive)
• Curriculum's (colonial inheritance)
• Teachers-qualifications (inadequate)

Technical and Vocational Skills Development In
Africa The Role of NGOs24.02.09 / Jan Hjort,
Vicepresident
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• No connection between education and the
  business/industrial sector
• Theoretical and almost none practical teaching
• Preparing for further education (self-supplying
  system)
• No practical periods in business/ industrial
  sector
• No cooperation with med labour market
  organisations
• No contact and relevance to the informal sector
• Absence of practical and vocational types of
  supplementary adult education

Technical and Vocational Skills Development In
Africa The Role of NGOs24.02.09 / Jan Hjort,
Vicepresident
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• TVET is different from other sectors in the
  education-system
• Has to correspond to the demands at the
  labour-market
• Demands for Teachers qualifications are different

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Africa The Role of NGOs24.02.09 / Jan Hjort,
Vicepresident
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• Importance of teachers
• Teachers involvement is a precondition for
  succeeding
• Needed competences
• Higher vocational level
• Modern educational methods
• Relevant experience from work
• Professional relations to business and industry
• Organise production (for pedagogical and
  economical reasons)

Technical and Vocational Skills Development In
Africa The Role of NGOs24.02.09 / Jan Hjort,
Vicepresident
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• Teacher organisations importance
• (Normally dominated by traditional theory-based
  thinking)
• Nationally involvement in advising to
  policy-making
• Locally involvement in implementation

Technical and Vocational Skills Development In
Africa The Role of NGOs24.02.09 / Jan Hjort,
Vicepresident
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• Mozambique
• PIREP (reform of vocational education)
• Crossing sectors - including several
  business/industrial sectors
• Improve output from education to labour market
• ONP (teachers organisation in Mozambique)
• Involved in national administration and control
  of PIREP
• Qualifying locale teacher representative to
  participate in implementation of PIREP

Technical and Vocational Skills Development In
Africa The Role of NGOs24.02.09 / Jan Hjort,
Vicepresident
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Technical an Vocational Skills Development In
Africa The Role of Teachers By Jan Hjort