Skills Development in Mozambique : Issues and Options
The World Bank's Country Assistance Strategy 2004-08 (CAS) indicates that the Bank is prepared to enter into a credit agreement to finance an integrated Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sector reform program. The project...
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| Format: | Other Education Study |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/08/5107612/mozambique-skills-development-mozambique-issues-options http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14366 |
| Summary: | The World Bank's Country Assistance
Strategy 2004-08 (CAS) indicates that the Bank is prepared
to enter into a credit agreement to finance an integrated
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
sector reform program. The project aims to improve access to
post-primary education and to 'increase graduation of
Mozambicans with the skills, practices, and attitudes needed
to fill technical positions, and create value-adding
knowledge and innovation in production. This Economic and
Sector Work (ESW) attempts to identify the key issues and
strategic options to strengthen the analytical base in the
sub-sector and support the preparation of this project.
Specifically, the study aims to identify ways and means
through which the World Bank could support the efforts of
the Government to: (a) augment the supply and productivity
of skilled labor in key sectors of the economy; (b) draw up
an integrated TVET system; (c) improve the external
efficiency and relevance of the vocational education and
training system; (d) improve internal efficiency and quality
of existing technical and vocational education; and (e)
expand access to TVET and reduce existing inequalities in
the system. The findings of this sector study support major
premises that should guide any further discussion about an
appropriate TVET reform path in Mozambique. Firstly, all
reform efforts will have to be governed by the goal of
transforming the current supply-driven into a
demand-oriented TVET system. Secondly, the situation and
financial analysis shows that a further expansion and
strengthening of the TVET system as it is at the current
moment will compromise its long term development and
modernization prospects and will not be financially
sustainable. Thirdly, it must be understood that TVET itself
and alone will not solve the problem of unemployment and
lack of productivity in the Mozambican economy. TVET can
only support growth and economic development once other
factors that influence the investment climate are right.
Fourthly, Government will need to re-define its role, niches
and special responsibility in the national TVET system in
accordance with defined and agreed criteria and in
partnership with other stakeholders in the training system.
Such a new definition of roles and responsibilities has to
be done before other major reform elements are identified.
Finally, it must be understood that a comprehensive reform
agenda will require the joint efforts of all stakeholders,
including the cooperating partners, many of whom have
already contributed technical and/or financial resources to
the improvement of TVET. The report falls in two principal
parts: (1) a diagnostic assessment of trends in the labor
market, in education and the technical and vocational
education and training sector; and (2) a discussion of
various options that are available for the Government t o
improve access, quality and labor market responsiveness of
TVET in a sustainable manner. |
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