TVET

TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training) is education and training which provides knowledge and skills for employment.. TVET uses formal, non-formal and informal learning. TVET is recognised to be a crucial vehicle for social equity, inclusion and sustainabile development.

The term 'Technical and Vocation Education and Training' or TVET was officiated at the World Congress on TVET in 1999 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. The congress recognised the term TVET to be broad enough to incorporate other terms that had been used to describe similar educational and training activities including Workforce Education (WE), and Technical-Vocational Education (TVE). The term TVET parallels other types of education and training e.g Vocational Education but is also used as an umbrella term to encompass education and training activities.

The decision in 1999 to officiate the term TVET led to the development of the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Bonn, Germany.

Because of TVET,’s isolation with other education streams it was not widely adopted, in particularly in secondary education. Steps were taken to reduce segmentation of education and training and to address institutional barriers that restricted TVET learners’ options including choices to move vertically to higher levels of learning, or horizontally to other streams.

Policy-makers have introduced forms of hybridization with other education systems, additionally some of the distinctions between TVET and ‘academic’ education streams have been blurred. This hybridisation has been termed the ‘vocationalization of secondary education’, a similar process has happened to a lesser extent in tertiary education.

The baccalauréat professionnel in France, and the middelbaar beroepsonderwijs (MBO) programmes in the Netherlands were revised so that learners gain specialist knowledge and skills and are required to obtain an extensive amount of work experience in the area they are specializing in.

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