The government intends to build a Technical and Vocational Education Training institution (TVET) in every constituency so as to increase enrollment and skills uptake among the youth.
Principal Secretary, State Department for Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET), Ministry of Education Dr. Esther Muoria said currently the government is building 50 TVET institutions to add to the existing ones.
Dr Muoria who spoke yesterday at Katine Technical Training Institute in Matungulu said the government targets to increase enrollment from the current 8000 to 2 million trainees to TVET institutions this year.
She said the trend now is to make TVET training modular so that young people do not spend long periods of time in training institutions.
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“It is very important that we are ready to take this country into the next level,” said Dr Muoria.
She added that young people with technical skills will be certified in three months.
“We have gone ahead to modularized the curriculum. We want our young people to come to TVET institutions and do module one for three months and they are certified to go into the job market,” she said adding that the government had exited the position of keeping young people in training institutions for long.
Dr Muoria said TVET training is not an alternative to university education but another pathway to career development.
“TVET training is closely linked to industry giving an example of first cohort of 20 young people who were now working at the Export Processing Zone,” Muoria said.
Dr Muoria added that the ongoing Affordable Housing Program was in need of skills such as electrical installation among, plumbing among others.
By Gastone Valusi
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