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When will our TVET system be fully CBET compliant?
DEAR EDITOR,
I wish to join in the discussion on Technical Education. I read the Ministry’s plight as presented by the Minister of Education (KN January 16, 2014), Ms Nestor’s queries (KN January 21, 2014) and Mr. Chinedu’s declarations (KN January 23, 2014) of the soaring heights to which our Technical Education curriculum has climbed.
However, there are a few questions which remained unanswered, especially in the face of the not so recent declaration by the Minister of Labour that our workforce is not adequately skilled to work on the Marriott Hotel project.
It is almost 10 years since the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Act was passed in Parliament in 2004. The Ministry of Education would have been made aware of the Caribbean Association of National Training Agencies (CANTA)’s assessment of the three Technical Institutions that were built.
I saw the Corentyne Technical Institute after completion. It did not satisfy the basic requirements laid down for certification by CANTA in terms of the physical infrastructure and embracing CBET (Competency Based Education and Training). The other two I have not seen, but am willing to wager that they would be in a similar situation.
Hence my first question is what took the Ministry so long to buy into a movement as critical as this?
When will our TVET system be fully CBET compliant? When will the necessary physical/structural improvements be made to our Technical Institutions to bring them up to the required specifications of CANTA?
Elton McRae
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