Heavy focus on skilled labour as national TVET plan launched

A 10-year policy to improve Guyana’s technical education sector was launched on Wednesday at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, Liliendaal, reports News Room.

The technical and vocational education and training (TVET) policy aims to empower Guyanese with the highest quality of vocational skills to foster innovation, sustainability and gender inclusion. The policy is intended to address the challenge of limited skilled labour in Guyana. It will further modernise technical and vocational education through technology while supporting the development of high demand skills in industries like the oil and gas and construction sectors.

The policy was designed by the Ministry of Education in collaboration with the World Bank. World Bank Director for Human Development for Latin America and the Caribbean, Jaime Saavedra described the policy as transformative. “The pace of [development] in this economy is gigantic and that dynamic growth creates a unique opportunity to ensure that our training programmes are both high quality and highly pertinent and aligns with the needs we see in industries and this new policy is doing precisely that,” Saavedra said.
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