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Oct 03, 2015 News
Chairman of the Council of Technical and Vocational Education and Training, (TVET), Clinton Williams, has said that there is an immense challenge in creating and fostering an environment that will allow increased appreciation of technical and vocational skills.
These combine to form a vital component for increased productivity, international competitiveness and increased economic development in Guyana.
Williams was at the time addressing the TVET and Career fairs, held at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre on Wednesday.
The event featured a number of secondary schools from across the regions and showcased their innovative skills using various materials such as wood, paper, metal and organic paste.
The Chairman related that technological fairs are not new. They have always been considered a vital input of the TVET system in countries whose productivity and competitive advantages rank highest with respect to Gross Domestic Production (GDP), economic growth and development.
Such systems, he added, are prevalent in Malaysia, Germany, the Nordic Countries (Sweden, Norway and Finland) and closer to home in Brazil.
“In fact we have been invited to participate by our Brazilian Counterpart “SENAI” in their national competition earlier this year. We were of the view that it will be advantageous to gain experience by mounting our own Technological Fair, and contribute to the development of the level of preparedness needed to compete at that level.”
Underlining the immense challenge of creating and fostering an environment that allows for TVET to be vital to international competitiveness and economic development, Williams asserted that improved collaboration and effective coordination among the formal and non-formal training institutions can reduce the high level of duplication in the delivery of many occupational skills programmes.
“We have long recognized that there exist gaps between the Occupational Skill demand by both the Private Sector and the Public Sector; and the occupational skills being supplied by the formal and non-formal training institutions.
“This phenomenon is occasioned by factors such as migration, poaching, new technology and/or new emerging sectors such as ICT, Oil and Gas, Eco Tourism.”
In this context, the TVET Chairman said that the council recently completed a Labour Market Intelligence Survey, through collaboration with the Ministry of Social Protection with funding from the Inter- American Development Bank.
“The intention however is the ultimate development of a permanent institutional mechanism to continually address this dilemma,” he explained.
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