In accordance with this aim, the TVET system would have the following characteristics: be a unified national system; be demand-driven, albeit producing a small excess pool of skilled labour; be based on labour market monitoring; be participatory – involving all stakeholders, especially the social partners; emphasise practical learning rather than ‘talk-and-chalk’ lectures; enable students who wish to do so, have the requisite ability, and fulfil certain requirements, to continue to community college or university after graduation; target: graduates of the compulsory general education system; drop-outs from the general education system; adults in employment (needing training and/or retraining); unemployed adults (needing training and/or retraining); provide training aimed primarily at the Palestinian labour market, but also at neighbouring labour markets; be modular; provide primarily job-specific modules but also generic modules; have a financing system based on: government financing; levy/tax on employers; payments from students; income-generating activities; grants and donations from national/international sources.