COLLEGES ADJUST THEIR CURRICULA
By Maganga Media - Feb 22, 2012
SOME 12 colleges in the country have changed their
curriculum so as to satisfy market demands.The Minister for
Education and Vocational Training, Dr Shukuru Kawambwa made the revelation when addressing participants of National Symposium themed ‘adapting to a changing world’ on Tuesday.
He said it was part of the assessment of the effectiveness of
skills development in local academic institutions to meet the
needs of a changing and dynamic labour market.While he did not name all the institutions, he hinted at Dar es Salaam
Institute for Technology (DIT) and Technical College of
The initiative is part of a project now entering its fourth year with collaboration between Tanzania and Canada.It’s titled ‘Education for Employment’ (EFE) and aims at exploring best ways for institutions and employees and government to work together to achieve a better aligned skills provision that addresses labour market.
EFE supports the country’s objective of developing a competitive labour force by working with the Department of Technical Education within the Ministry to increase the effectiveness and relevance of the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system .on Tuesday, Mr Kawambwa said that EFE was developed to respond to countries whose training systems were not working.
“Right now, we are standing at the threshold of the 21st century, a century that is characterized by rapid
technological changes and advancement.“A slow pace of the developing countries in terms of capacity of training institutions to address the demand for new skills often results into them producing graduates who do not meet the needs of new investments, projects and the employers,” he said.
The minister explained that EFE meant education and training that is geared primarily to prepare learners to obtain jobs, keep their jobs through skills upgrading.Participants from different sectors met to evaluate how EFE meets challenges of a changing world that values the ‘knowledge society’, with discussions surrounding how Knowledge and skills are fundamental to nations’ competitiveness and to its survival and prosperity.
Dr Kawambwa said that in the past, there was a gap between education given and demands of the labour
market.He gave the example of the gas and oil sector where there is high need for the local education sector to locally produce people to work there.
Dr Shukuru Kawambwa “We are entering the fourth year of this project, and we have already got some positives especially with our graduates joining the labour market,” he said.He asked institutions and companies to accept students when they apply for field practice at their entities.
The Director of Association of Canadian Community College(ACCC) Ms Susan Sproule said that in all countries, there were education challenges as lecture based learning and a need to change from academic to
competency-based education.She noted that 70 per cent of all jobs in developed countries are now in the knowledge sector.
In Africa, ongoing EFE programmes are in Tanzania, Senegal and Mozambique. Some of the industries discussed are agriculture, mining and tourism.
“Right now, we are standing at the threshold of the 21st century, a century that is characterized by rapid
technological changes and advancement.“A slow pace of the developing countries in terms of capacity of training institutions to address the demand for new skills often results into them producing graduates who do not meet the needs of new investments, projects and the employers,” he said.
The minister explained that EFE meant education and training that is geared primarily to prepare learners to obtain jobs, keep their jobs through skills upgrading.Participants from different sectors met to evaluate how EFE meets challenges of a changing world that values the ‘knowledge society’, with discussions surrounding how Knowledge and skills are fundamental to nations’ competitiveness and to its survival and prosperity.
Dr Kawambwa said that in the past, there was a gap between education given and demands of the labour
market.He gave the example of the gas and oil sector where there is high need for the local education sector to locally produce people to work there.
Dr Shukuru Kawambwa “We are entering the fourth year of this project, and we have already got some positives especially with our graduates joining the labour market,” he said.He asked institutions and companies to accept students when they apply for field practice at their entities.
The Director of Association of Canadian Community College(ACCC) Ms Susan Sproule said that in all countries, there were education challenges as lecture based learning and a need to change from academic to
competency-based education.She noted that 70 per cent of all jobs in developed countries are now in the knowledge sector.
In Africa, ongoing EFE programmes are in Tanzania, Senegal and Mozambique. Some of the industries discussed are agriculture, mining and tourism.
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