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Blended Learning Approach in TVET Skills Development
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[POSTER] A number of Commonwealth member states are classified as emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs), where a larger percentage of the population operate in informal sectors. These constitutes more than 70 percent of total employment and that contributes about one-third of national output. Their output is generally of poor quality. (Ohnsorge Franziska and Shu Yu eds. 2022). The outcome is a venerable workforce of a large number of the active young adults, with no job security or dignified work and limited social safety nets. A segment of this group, possess certain skills, not formally acquired but built up through years of practice, however they are unable to get gainful employment because of lack of qualification certificates. On the other hand, those with necessary skills are unable to get gainful employment because of non-alignment between the knowledge acquired and the actual needs of the economy. To address these challenges, COL through the Skills for Work initiative, is working with government policy makers and TVET authorities to create frameworks, provide technical assistance to enhancing their capacity to deliver to mainstream TVET skills training. This paper demonstrates the import of these initiatives showing imperial evidence from three participating countries i.e. Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia, on how the Skills for Work Model and the e-apprenticeship model employing Open and Distance Learning (ODL) is facilitating a transformation.
PCF11 Sub-Theme: Skills Development Through Lifelong Open Education
Paper ID: 1014
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Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia
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Pan-Commonwealth, Africa
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2025-09
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Commonwealth of Learning (COL)