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Qualified instructors: meaning that the training instructors at vocational level should also be
checked to ensure that they have genuine professional expertise and industrial experience so
that the student can be readily accepted by labour market. Thus, by employing qualified
instructors we shall have fostered positive vocational education performance.
Fund: Improving quality in vocational education by simply enforcing policies and driving out
bad quality within implementers is not enough. Extra attention has to be placed in addressing
the provisional needs by administering the right infrastructure of funding and incentives (Wolf,
2011). The funding should be aimed at helping schools and institutions to outsource or train
staff so as to increase quality in the training process. Andmore so, part of the funding could also
be used in purchasing equipment that will impart hands-on skills tostudents so that they can fit
in job market. Thus, when funding is offered to institutions, chances are high that their
performancewill increase gradually unlikewhen they depend on internal incomes generated by
the institutions.
Table1.1: Main factors that determine the performance of VET
Key Factors Main aspects
1. Policy The policy established at state or national level will clarify the
objective and goals to be achieved by institutionswithwhich the
performance of VET can bemeasured against
2. Employability Improving employability leads to increase in skill set and human
capital. Thus the better the employability the better the performance of
vocational educations and vice versa.
3. Skills demand By keeping check of the dynamics of changing demands and supply, the
institutionswill be in position to direct their efforts towards specific
demands skill sets.
4. Access to VE In order to improve performance, the state has to put into
consideration both the general and vulnerable group of students so as
to enhance the level of enrolment among VET systems.
5. Qualified
instructors
By employing qualified instructors VET institutions shall have fostered
positive vocational educational performance.
6. Fund The funding should be aimed at helping schools and institutions to
outsource or train staffs so as to increase quality in the training
process.
1.3.7. Conclusion
In conclusion, in order to determine good performance of vocational education, the state or
nation has to establish policies that will give a sense of directions to institutions towar ds
achieving expected goals and objectives, the institutions have to implement these policies by
employing good professional instructors or outsource them, and purchasing or look for funding
to buy equipment that are relevant to the intended use in the job mark so as to equip students
with good skill set. Having a good consideration of these factors will lead to good performance
of vocational educations globally.