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Skills for Industrialisation in Sub-Saharan African Countries: Why Is Systemic Reform of Technical and Vocational Systems so Persistently Unsuccessful?
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Allais, Stephanie – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2022
This paper examines three interrelated factors outside of formal provision of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in sub-Saharan Africa that have undermined TVET systems. The first is the process, pace, and levels of industrialisation, which has had a direct effect on TVET provision: low numbers of well-paying jobs requiring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Technical Education, Industrialization
Social Return on Investment Analysis of Support from the Commonwealth of Learning for the Open and Innovative Schooling Model. Value for Money Evaluation Report
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Manyamba, Christopher; Phundulu, Morris; Vally, Zaheedah; Muchesa, Evans; Mosselson, Maureen – Commonwealth of Learning, 2021
As the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) was in the last year of its 2015-2021 strategic plan, COL sought to evaluate the impact of its interventions in open and innovative schooling (OIS) in the period 2018-2021 through an external review. An online quantitative study was carried out in Belize, Malawi, Mozambique, Trinidad and Tobago, and Zambia,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cost Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Open Education
"Give Courage to the Ladies:" Expansive Apprenticeship for Women in Rural Malawi
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Safford, Kimberly; Cooper, Deborah; Wolfenden, Freda; Chitsulo, Joyce – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2013
Apprenticeship in developed and industrialised nations is increasingly understood and practised as learning which connects workplace activity and formal study. The concept of "expansive apprenticeship" defines frameworks for workforce development where participants acquire knowledge and skills which will help them in the future as well…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Females, Apprenticeships
30 Years of Learning: Educational Development in Eastern and Southern African from Independence to 1990.
Ishumi, Abel G. M. – 1994
This book provides an historical and comparative review of educational policies and practices in eight countries of eastern and southern Africa in the period since political independence. These policies and educational changes were articulated in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, decades characterized by high socioeconomic and political expectations.…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Change
OUTLINE OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN MALAWI.
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Australian Dept. of Labour and National Service, Perth. – 1966
THE 1963 POPULATION OF MALAWI WAS 3,753,000. MALAWI'S ECONOMY IS BASED ON AGRICULTURE. PRIMARY EDUCATION COVERS 8 YEARS AND ENROLLS 98 PERCENT OF THE 380,000 PUPILS IN SCHOOL. TECHNICAL SCHOOLS INCLUDE TRADE- AND TECHNICIAN-ORIENTED PROGRAMS UNDER THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION. A NEW UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI INCLUDES NO COURSES OF A TECHNICAL NATURE, BUT…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Economic Development, Educational Planning, Foreign Countries
Major Trends in Education in Malawi, 1974-1976.
Ministry of Education, Lilongwe (Malawi). – 1977
Since independence from Britain in 1964, the Ministry of Education of Malawi has concentrated on developing a skilled and educated citizenry and on expanding agricultural and technical training. Secondary education was expanded and diversified during the 1960's, a university was established, and a correspondence school was set up to serve the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Comparative Education, Developing Nations