Skills Development: Vocational Education
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Table 4.8: Analysis (Poverty eradication through skill acquisition)
S Teacher Administrator Comments
Item Xt Result Xa Result
1 The government has provided adequate
supports to poor people for increasing their
enrolment
3.05 3.05<3.5 2.61 2.61<3.5 Not accepted
2 Palestine has provision to attract poor
people towards skilled training
3.43 3.43<3.5 3.41 3.41<3.5 Not accepted
3 The government provides free skills for
students from poor families
3.59 3.59>3.5 3.43 3.43<3.5 Undecided
4 The government and private sectors have
initiatives to create jobs for skilled people
3.17 3.17<3.5 3.26 3.26<3.5 Not accepted
5 The skill trainings reduce poverty levels in
the country
3.28 3.28<3.5 3.26 3.26<3.5 Not accepted
6 Poor people could not manage resources to
enroll for skill training
3.75 3.75>3.5 3.91 3.91>3.5 Accepted
7 TVET sectors attracted poor people for skill
training
3.61 3.61>3.5 Accepted
8 The country has provision to send skilled
manpower to other countries
2.83 2.83<3.5 Not accepted
9 TVET graduates have been actively
involved in creating jobs through
entrepreneurship
4.04 4.04>3.5 Accepted
10 Youths’ opinions have not been taken into
consideration while formulating policies
for the development of VE
3.83 3.83>3.5 Accepted
FromTable 4.8 and Figure 4.6, we conclude that skills training has linkwith poverty eradication:
1. Government does not provide adequate supports to poor people for increasing their
enrollment.
2. TVET sectors of Palestine do not have provision to attract poor people towards skilled
training.
3. Government provides free skills for students from poor families (this statement needs
further support to confirm). In contrast, the qualitative data shows that government did
not have enough funds to support this initiative.
4. The government and private sectors do not have initiative to create jobs for skilled
people
5. The skill trainings donot reduce poverty levels in the country. In this context, qualitative
data shows that continual wars and siege are the main reasons of having this poverty.
6. The poor people could not manage resources to enroll for skill training (they need to
work hard for their living).
7. TVET sectors are trying to attract poor people for skill training.
8. The country has no provision to send skilled manpower to other countries (who may in
return earn foreign currency).
9. TVET graduates have been actively involved in creating jobs through entrepreneurship
10. Youths’ opinions have not been taken into consideration sufficientlywhile formulating
policies for the development of vocational