TITLE:
Establishing Quality in Technical and Vocational Education in Burundi: Contribution of the National Education Forum, Edition 2022 and in Employability in Burundi
AUTHORS:
Sennel Nduwimana, Ildephonse Sindayigaya
KEYWORDS:
Youth Employability, Professionals’ Involvement Programs, Curricula Revision Utilities, Vocational Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.9,
September
11,
2023
ABSTRACT: Burundi, a party to the UN engaged to the
development of youth education targeting to diminish the situation of youth
unemployment and under-employability.
It has on June 14-16, 2022 organized a national education forum to search for
means to face youth issue in the field education especially technical and
vocational education. This article aims to analyze solutions held over the
forum towards youth employability through technical and vocational education
and training. The documentary method was used throughout this article in data
collection while a deduction technique helped during their analysis. Results
showed that through that gate, youth employability increase is possible but
requires involvement of all sub-sector actors and stakeholders in the design of
training programs, participation of professionals throughout the curriculum and
program development process, diagnostic eye on the current curriculum with a
view to improving it, employers’ association call up in job referential
establishment which has a better grasp of the job market, programs revision in
line with the real needs of the job market, and the connection between schools
and universities and the professional environment to define together the
training offer and the output profile.