JET TVET Resources

Towards a micro-credential country model for Burundi
Author: Unicef
Published: 2024

Recognition of non-formal and informal skills for young people in Eastern and Southern Africa through the innovation of micro-credentials. Published by Unicef, Austrian Development Agency in collaboration with JET Education Services (N.Niyiduhaye, A.Paterson, Z. Vally)

Keywords: Micro-credential, Informal Skills, TVET Resources
Towards a micro-credential country model for Uganda
Author: Unicef
Published: 2024

Recognition of non-formal and informal skills for young people in Eastern and Southern Africa through the innovation of micro-credentials. Published by Unicef, Austrian Development Agency in collaboration with JET Education Services (D. Odongo and P. Molokwane)

Keywords: Micro-credential, Informal Skills, TVET Resources
The innovation of micro-credentials
Author: Unicef
Published: 2024

Enhancing the recognition of non-formal skills for young people in Eastern and Southern Africa

Keywords: Informal Skills, Micro-credentials, TVET Resources
Towards a performance management framework for TVET lecturers in South Africa
Authors: Andrew Paterson, Zaahedah Vally, Lungelo Mthembu-Salter, Nick Matlin, Patrick Molokwane, James Keevy
Published: 2024

This research is focused on enhancing the relationship between performance appraisal (PA) and continuing professional development (CPD) within the wider performance management of South African technical and vocational education and training (TVET) lecturers. It aims to address the country’s challenges in job creation and skills development by contributing to a well-aligned performance management and CPD system. Emphasising the importance of TVET lecturers in national human resource development (HRD), the research underscores the critical role of lecturers in shaping skilled graduates, thus contributing to economic growth, and advocates for a fair accountability process through PA in TVET colleges’ performance management systems.

Keywords: TVET, Post School Education and Training
Enhancing TVET through digital transformation in developing countries
Author: This document was written by Alan Amory, Deborah Hunt, Tanya Kapoor, and our JET staff: James Keevy, Patrick Molokwane, Lungelo Mthembu-Salter, Andrew Paterson, Carla Pereira and Kelly Shiohira, with support from Mark Forsberg (Peace Corps). Danilo Leite Dalmon and Hiromichi Katayama (UNESCO) provided direction and supervision throughout the production of this report.
Published: 2023

Digital transformation is a complex process that with varying impacts across economic sectors. In the education and training sector, digital transformation in TVET can involve TVET operational systems (administration, finance, human resources, building infrastructure and maintenance, student registration, etc.); classroom delivery (learning management, instructional delivery methods, etc.); and the actual knowledge and skill component of the curriculum, for example by integrating productivity software such as word processors or spreadsheets into students’ learning outcomes. The integration of digital skills in the TVET curriculum allows learners to acquire the changing skills and knowledge (tacit and explicit) required to function in a digitalizing society, economy and labour market. Digital transformation in TVET is also transforming the dominant modalities of traditional face-to-face learning and teaching to involve multiple configurations of actors (learners, teachers and technologies/apps) in space and time (when, where, who, how). This means that digital transformation in TVET offers opportunities for teachers to reconsider their pedagogical assumptions, behaviours and relationships with students.

Keywords: TVET, UNESCO, Digital Transformation
Exploring a Work-Based Values Approach in South African TVET Colleges to Improve Employability of Youth: Literature review
Author: Paterson, A
Published: 2017

A literature review in which we consider an opportunity for systemic change from a perspective that, in our view, is largely under researched in South Africa as well as internationally: that of student, lecturer and employer values, specifically values related to working and workplaces.

Keywords: TVET Resources, ICT in Education, Workplace values, TVET colleges, Literature Review
American community colleges: a study trip report
Author: Garza, E
Published: 2015

This contribution draws on a study visit to a number of American Community Colleges in the US in September 2014 as part of JET’s aim to contribute to the national and international debate on skills development and youth unemployment.

Keywords: TVET Resources