ADDIS ABABA –The Federal Technical and Vocational Education and Training Agency (TVET) said that it is connecting its competent graduate trainees with ample job opportunities and strengthening its cooperation to work together with industrial stake holders.
With the intention of joining low and middle level human power to the sector, making the small and medium enterprises competent as well as making technological transparent, the agency is giving due attention to collaborating with the partners.
Solomon Haile, Communication Directorate Director within the Agency said that the main objective of the agency is seeing to the trainees' success in competency evaluation and employment at industries or start private jobs. In this regard, more than 68 percents of the competent trainees started job in the GTP II .
Beyond training the students, the TVET institutions are working on supporting industry extension. They exert to make the industries productive and competent at international level. According to him, the agency is working its level best best regarding this.
In an exclusive interview with The Ethiopian Herald, Yitayew Daniel, Technical Skill Team Leader under the Industry Extension Directorate within the Agency said that there were some agreements with some organization. There have been good relations with some of them while it was not satisfactory with the others. According to him, the result was the consequence of limitation on technical and vocational based strategy.
This fiscal year, the Agency has already made discussions and finally agreed to work together with nine partners. As a preliminary stage, they have prepared a plan together and are trying to work jointly.
Ministry of construction, Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resource, Ministry of Science and Technology, Job opportunity and Food Security Agency, Metal and Engineering Cooperation and Small and Medium manufacturing enterprise are among the nine stake holders said Yitayew.
Starting from deepening awareness, the agency will work strongly including technological transition with each stake holders, according to Yitayew. The Agency with the partners is already planning together on what their responsibility should be based on GTP II. At present, they are working to get approval and present findings at management level.
Yitayew further stated that according to GTP II, the Agency is also working to create effective human power on small and medium level and make the enterprises proficient as well as create technological change at state level. Thus, it needs group action for its success and will join force with stake holders.
Moreover, Solomon said that currently the perception of the society on TVET is getting better. Also, the agency is trying to work to increase the number of its regular trainees as well as the quality of education.
“The Agency is playing a great role in the country’s economic and social development” he said and will continue to create a skilled human power to support the nation's huge project for the future.
The agency is now managing about 1357 institutions and there are more than three hundred thousand regular trainees. A huge number of market oriented short trainings are also available under the TVET all over the nation.
BY GENET FEKADE
With the intention of joining low and middle level human power to the sector, making the small and medium enterprises competent as well as making technological transparent, the agency is giving due attention to collaborating with the partners.
Solomon Haile, Communication Directorate Director within the Agency said that the main objective of the agency is seeing to the trainees' success in competency evaluation and employment at industries or start private jobs. In this regard, more than 68 percents of the competent trainees started job in the GTP II .
Beyond training the students, the TVET institutions are working on supporting industry extension. They exert to make the industries productive and competent at international level. According to him, the agency is working its level best best regarding this.
In an exclusive interview with The Ethiopian Herald, Yitayew Daniel, Technical Skill Team Leader under the Industry Extension Directorate within the Agency said that there were some agreements with some organization. There have been good relations with some of them while it was not satisfactory with the others. According to him, the result was the consequence of limitation on technical and vocational based strategy.
This fiscal year, the Agency has already made discussions and finally agreed to work together with nine partners. As a preliminary stage, they have prepared a plan together and are trying to work jointly.
Ministry of construction, Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resource, Ministry of Science and Technology, Job opportunity and Food Security Agency, Metal and Engineering Cooperation and Small and Medium manufacturing enterprise are among the nine stake holders said Yitayew.
Starting from deepening awareness, the agency will work strongly including technological transition with each stake holders, according to Yitayew. The Agency with the partners is already planning together on what their responsibility should be based on GTP II. At present, they are working to get approval and present findings at management level.
Yitayew further stated that according to GTP II, the Agency is also working to create effective human power on small and medium level and make the enterprises proficient as well as create technological change at state level. Thus, it needs group action for its success and will join force with stake holders.
Moreover, Solomon said that currently the perception of the society on TVET is getting better. Also, the agency is trying to work to increase the number of its regular trainees as well as the quality of education.
“The Agency is playing a great role in the country’s economic and social development” he said and will continue to create a skilled human power to support the nation's huge project for the future.
The agency is now managing about 1357 institutions and there are more than three hundred thousand regular trainees. A huge number of market oriented short trainings are also available under the TVET all over the nation.
BY GENET FEKADE
ADDIS ABABA –The Federal Technical and Vocational Education and Training Agency (TVET) said that it is connecting its competent graduate trainees with ample job opportunities and strengthening its cooperation to work together with industrial stake holders.
With the intention of joining low and middle level human power to the sector, making the small and medium enterprises competent as well as making technological transparent, the agency is giving due attention to collaborating with the partners.
Solomon Haile, Communication Directorate Director within the Agency said that the main objective of the agency is seeing to the trainees' success in competency evaluation and employment at industries or start private jobs. In this regard, more than 68 percents of the competent trainees started job in the GTP II .
Beyond training the students, the TVET institutions are working on supporting industry extension. They exert to make the industries productive and competent at international level. According to him, the agency is working its level best best regarding this.
In an exclusive interview with The Ethiopian Herald, Yitayew Daniel, Technical Skill Team Leader under the Industry Extension Directorate within the Agency said that there were some agreements with some organization. There have been good relations with some of them while it was not satisfactory with the others. According to him, the result was the consequence of limitation on technical and vocational based strategy.
This fiscal year, the Agency has already made discussions and finally agreed to work together with nine partners. As a preliminary stage, they have prepared a plan together and are trying to work jointly.
Ministry of construction, Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resource, Ministry of Science and Technology, Job opportunity and Food Security Agency, Metal and Engineering Cooperation and Small and Medium manufacturing enterprise are among the nine stake holders said Yitayew.
Starting from deepening awareness, the agency will work strongly including technological transition with each stake holders, according to Yitayew. The Agency with the partners is already planning together on what their responsibility should be based on GTP II. At present, they are working to get approval and present findings at management level.
Yitayew further stated that according to GTP II, the Agency is also working to create effective human power on small and medium level and make the enterprises proficient as well as create technological change at state level. Thus, it needs group action for its success and will join force with stake holders.
Moreover, Solomon said that currently the perception of the society on TVET is getting better. Also, the agency is trying to work to increase the number of its regular trainees as well as the quality of education.
“The Agency is playing a great role in the country’s economic and social development” he said and will continue to create a skilled human power to support the nation's huge project for the future.
The agency is now managing about 1357 institutions and there are more than three hundred thousand regular trainees. A huge number of market oriented short trainings are also available under the TVET all over the nation.
BY GENET FEKADE
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