Vocational and Technical Education

Technical and Vocational Education

8.1.6 Technical and vocational education

Vocational technical schools (units)

(b) Technical and Vocational Education and Training

TEVTA Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority.

The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection's vocational technical education system has 73 vocational technical schools that train specialists in 160 specialties.

Technical Dispatch and Vocational Training (Iran) opening of IT vocational school conducting computer trainings for Afghan refugees and impoverished Iranians.

Technical Dispatch and Vocational Training (Yemen) dressmaking training for impoverished women.

There is also a technical and vocational college with 371 students enrolled.

(d) Enable persons with disabilities to have effective access to general technical and vocational guidance programmes, placement services and vocational and continuing training

Secondary education consists of three different types general, technical or vocational.

Technical Dispatch and Vocational Training (Vietnam) dressmaking and knitting trainings to ethnic minority groups.

There is also significant segregation within the category of technical and vocational (artisan) schools.

The Technical and Vocational Education Training Master Plan was formally launched in May 2003.

10.21 In almost all forms of technical and vocational education and training, females are underrepresented.

However, the majority of secondary school graduates of technical and vocational schools are boys (59 ).

Secondary vocational education. In secondary vocational institutions (training schools, technical schools and colleges, and other educational institutions equivalent to them), citizens may obtain a specialty on the basis of general basic, general secondary and beginning vocational education.

10.40 There are eight private technical vocational secondary schools run by religious organizations offering Years 7 to Year 9 programmes that emphasize vocational and practical training.

Girls were being encouraged to pursue technical and vocational training and to enter other traditionally male fields.

The UN and other multilateral organizations are working towards improving the technical and vocational training system in Egypt.

The Technical and Vocational Education and Training sub programme currently provides 5,223 vocational and technical semi professional training places in eight training centres (two in Jordan, three in the West Bank and one each in Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic and the Gaza Strip).

A great deal of importance is being attached to beginning vocational technical training for women.

Of the total contingent in vocational technical schools in 2003 (23,911 individuals), 6,798 were women.

Technical Dispatch and Vocational Training (Vietnam) dressmaking, knitting, and mechanical repair training for ethnic minority groups in mountainous area.

The reports indicated that few girls took up technical subjects or technical vocational training and that little was being done to steer them in those directions.

beginning vocational, secondary vocational, higher vocational education

In Nepal, training activities have been launched within the Annex Programme of the National Centre for Technical and Vocational Education

12. Stresses the importance of technical and vocational training in increasing technological learning and innovation and for promoting entrepreneurship for technological development

The Labour Code prohibited night work for women, and women did receive technical and vocational training in the public and private sectors.

About 300 institutes of higher education offer two to three years of post secondary vocational or technical training.

(b) Outreach strategies of the Technical and Vocational Education and Training system to marginalized girls were demonstrated and integrated into national development plans.

1.79 To provide, improve and optimize vocational and technical education for young Palestine refugees to enhance their opportunities for employment and economic independence.

Those include the promotion of youth clubs, the establishment of technical and vocational training centres and the organization of cultural exchanges and integration activities.

Higher vocational education in the country is performed on the basis of general secondary, beginning vocational and secondary vocational education, and colleges of higher vocational schools and in State institutions of higher vocational education, including private institutions.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) provided technical assistance in specific areas including the Education for All initiative, technical and vocational education and training, early childhood education, teacher training, adult literacy, inclusive education and higher education.

The programme includes general education, teacher education and technical vocational education and training for Palestine refugee children and youth, in accordance with their needs, identity and cultural heritage.

Prior to the adoption of the Act on the educational system, technical and vocational education in the Niger was regulated by a large number of bodies.

Vocational orientation and training

Parties are required to take appropriate steps to safeguard this right, including technical and vocational training and economic policies aimed at steady economic development and ultimately full employment.

Convention concerning Vocational Guidance and Vocational Training in the Development of Human Resources(No. 142)

These include the provision of free, universal and compulsory primary education, generally available and accessible secondary education in various forms (including technical and vocational training), and equally accessible higher education.

General and Technological Vocational Tracks

In such conditions, UNRWA was one of the most effective United Nations agencies, particularly in delivering services in the areas of health care, education and vocational and technical training.

(m) Eliminate occupational segregation and gender wage gaps, including by increasing opportunities for women and girls for work in non traditional sectors, inter alia, through technical education and vocational training