Table 1: All TVET Centre Skills Development Activities (2014) Sanma Malampa Torba Total Agriculture 2 0 3 5 Business 4 1 0 5 Fisheries 4 0 2 6 Forestry 1 0 0 1 IT 1 0 0 1 Livestock 1 1 0 2 Manufacturing 6 3 1 10 Others 4 0 0 4 Tourism 14 9 15 38 Trades & Services 0 5 0 5 Grand Total 37 19 21 77 Clearly, the greater the level of information sharing, cooperation and joint planning and implementation, the greater is the potential for tangible achievements. The pattern of utilising the variety of skills development activity continued to develop over 2014, with TVET Centres moving towards a more integrated approach rather than the previously more segregated conception of training’ and development ‘accredited ‘business services’. This is enabling Centres to consider the full range of options when seeking to respond to a request for skills development, in some cases building a package of support that blends formal training with coaching and mentoring and technical follow-up. This more integrated approach is becoming recognised as an important strength of the TVET Centre approach, and one has potential for wider application in Vanuatu as the TVET sector develops. The CEO of the Vanuatu Qualifications Authority has emphasised that the model demonstrated by the TVET Centres providing skills training as well as coaching and – mentoring that support individual business growth is a good model for the sector. – TVET Centre Participants The program collects baseline data from participants in all skills development activities, enabling analysis of access and participation rates as well as providing a basis for subsequent outcomes evaluation work. The tool and processes for baseline data collected continued to be refined over 2014, enabling improved data collection, management and analysis. Over the course of 2014, 1062 men and women participated in TVET Centre skills development activities. This compares to a total of 852 men and women in 2013 The suspension of accredited training for the half of 2014 appears to have had an impact on some aspects of participation. Because accredited training tends to support younger participants, and is provided much more in some sectors than others (in trades and services, for example, and not in tourism), there have been shifts in the age profile of participants and in the sectoral mix of activities. This is documented below.
Table 1: All TVET Centre Skills Development Activities (2014) Sanma Malampa Torba Total Agriculture 2 0 3 5 Business 4 1 0 5 Fisheries 4 0 2 6 Forestry 1 0 0 1 IT 1 0 0 1 Livestock 1 1 0 2 Manufacturing 6 3 1 10 Others 4 0 0 4 Tourism 14 9 15 38 Trades & Services 0 5 0 5 Grand Total 37 19 21 77 Clearly, the greater the level of information sharing, cooperation and joint planning and implementation, the greater is the potential for tangible achievements. The pattern of utilising the variety of skills development activity continued to develop over 2014, with TVET Centres moving towards a more integrated approach rather than the previously more segregated conception of ‘accredited training’ and ‘business development services’. This is enabling Centres to consider the full range of options when seeking to respond to a request for skills development, in some cases building a package of support that blends formal training with coaching and mentoring and technical follow-up. This more integrated approach is becoming recognised as an important strength of the TVET Centre approach, and one has potential for wider application in Vanuatu as the TVET sector develops. The CEO of the Vanuatu Qualifications Authority has emphasised that the model demonstrated by the TVET Centres – providing skills training as well as coaching and mentoring that support individual business growth – is a good model for the sector. TVET Centre Participants The program collects baseline data from participants in all skills development activities, enabling analysis of access and participation rates as well as providing a basis for subsequent outcomes evaluation work. The tool and processes for baseline data collected continued to be refined over 2014, enabling improved data collection, management and analysis. Over the course of 2014, 1062 men and women participated in TVET Centre skills development activities. This compares to a total of 852 men and women in 2013 The suspension of accredited training for the half of 2014 appears to have had an impact on some aspects of participation. Because accredited training tends to support younger participants, and is provided much more in some sectors than others (in trades and services, for example, and not in tourism), there have been shifts in the age profile of participants and in the sectoral mix of activities. This is documented below.
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