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Skills Development: Vocational Education

in the Islamic Countries

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THEME 1: Eradicationof poverty viavocational education

Through entrepreneurship skills:

TVET is considered as a means of equipping studentswith

self-employment skills in Uganda. When a student is trainedwith skills he does not only acquire

skills but also he/she turns out to be self-employed there by creating jobs for others. This was

highlighted as a good strategywithwhich the acquired skills, throughvocational training, helped

to alleviate poverty:

“some of the graduates go and get employed others get involved in self-employment and this

create jobs for others they also actually create jobs through providing jobs for others and

also generating products which other people can sell which they can sell to other people and

such away we can get some income and thereby reducing unemployment.”(P4Ug)

“these students they go out there, they make their own garments, they employ themselves,

they even employ others and I think it is a contribution although it is at lower level but it is

a contribution.”(P6Ug)

“youth having been trained and they have the skills they would create employment , now

as they create employment they will stop from going to look for employment and they start

their small business in there they are going to recruit other youth who are mere helpers who

in long run be trained with in the scope of the business , so in so doing that we are reducing

the population from the (for example) if we had 1000 students or youth the other side and

one or two are skilled in which ever skilleddisciplines then you can find that this one persons

who can go with about 20 untrained ones that is the way of reducing the population of

unemployed youths to the improve the economy of the country because in here we level the

taxes ,which taxes help us in other developmental things within the country.”

(P5Ug)

Provision of hostel facilities:

Most TVET institutions have provision of hostel that is to attract

people from rural areaswho find it difficult to travel to and fro the institution. Thus, this

subsidised hostel fee attract the poor to join institutions in the long run. Participants have

highlighted this that:

“Kampala, but we have hostel facilities, there are people who came from far away come and

reside in Kampala and study with us and at affordable rate.”(P6Ug)

Poverty alleviation:

Vocational institutions have been considered as a basis for reducing the

poverty levels inmost of the countries, more particularly in Uganda. They have been helping the

country through skill training to reduce on the number of unemployment and thus redu cing

poverty. Participants have highlighted this:

“you should know that there were demographic reports of population and that at least by

2030 or 2050 Africa is going to create jobs for over 700 youths but right now basing on our

capacity now we afford only 30% of that so one of the way is to train these people at X

institute we run a normal program that all our student should learn skills like making soap

(bar and liquid soap), books, shoes…” (P1Ug)

Bursary and scholarship

:

In order to alleviate poverty in Uganda, vocational institutions have

offered some considerable discounts for students who came from poor backgrounds as a form

of attracting them towards attaining skill training. Participants have highlighted this: