Skills Development: Vocational Education
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“But also these guys are also poor in some area some students cannot afford the tuition
of the university red hand scholars our rates are high but many students are on half
bursary to those who are struggling financially attracting the poor”(P1Ug)
“even institute do that in the base of half bursary…”(P2Ug)
“Yes we do give bursaries, but our bursaries have two folds, we have sports bursaries
then we have those who excelled in these areas we call them academic sponsorship …”
(P6Ug)
Gaining immediate Job: Students who graduate from TVET institutions stand higher chances
of being employed as compared to university students. Industries prefer TVET graduate to
university graduate because they have hands on skills. This has been emphasised by our
participants:
“The positive impacts is that, the few youth we have been trained well they have gotten their
employments and they are speaking to the field “(P5Ug).
“we look at vocational institution generally the good thing there are people with good skills
like earn a living, join a job”(P6Ug)
Socio-economic status: By gaining skills, graduateswill be in position to earn money through
employment or creating jobs. Uganda has huge number of migrants and street children around
the country who need to earn a living. Through training these misfortunate people with skills
grants them a second chance to live a better life.
“X(institute) have been in collaboration with world vision and we picked youth from
Nakawa division , Makindye division and we have trained over five hundred(500) youths
from only one division ……these are people that we picked from suburbs that were
becoming problem either to multiply like (for example) girls they go in to conceive add
more burden to the burdens those are there. The youth we have always picked them from
those streets we train them like in block laying schemes and so on and we have attached
them so sites and when we follow them back there rather they are changed from the kind
of person we used to have to this kind of person we right now have .”(P5Ug)
Refugee’s camps sustainability: Through vocational training, refugees are in position to do in-
camps jobs to sustain themselves. Refugees in Uganda have been trained with some skill with
which they can earn a living within camps. Thus being employed temporarily to help others
through skill acquisition. The participants in this study highlighted this:
“we even get chance and we train people from refugee camps fromsouth Sudan… we skilled
them in that area(multimedia) because they were like we (Donors) want these people to
be good in multimedia because actually we have camera we want them to be operating
them because we a tied of spending money from outside people and capture for us these
things around doing videos for us so that if we can train our own they actually do those
documentations…..it will improve sustainability of our refugees” (P2Ug)