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FINANCING SKILL TRAINING FOR EMPLOYER BASED IN-SERVICE TRAINING
March 5, 2019 at 10:25
INVITATION FOR TRAINING PROPOSALS FINANCING SKILL TRAINING FOR EMPLOYER BASED IN-SERVICE TRAINING Background The Skills Development Levy was established in 2016 under the Skills Development Levy Act No. 46 of 2016. The main objective of the levy is to provide financial resource for the TEVET sector for skills development, in collaboration with the Technical Education, Vocational, and Entrepreneurship Training Authority (TEVETA) which was established under the Technical Education, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training Act of No. 13 of 1998 and the amendment Act No. 11 of 2005. Among the responsibilities of TEVETA, is the management of the Technical Educa ... Read more
CIRCULAR ON ACCREDITATION OF TRAINERS, ASSESSORS AND EXAMINERS
January 11, 2019 at 13:41
10th January 2019 CIRCULAR NO: 1 OF 2019 TO: Principals Training Managers Institutional Directors Centre Managers Registered TEVET Institutions in Zambia SUBJECT: ACCREDITATION OF TRAINERS, ASSESSORS AND EXAMINERS One of the functions of TEVETA, in line with the Technical Education, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training (Amendment) Act number 11 of 2005, is to accredit trainers, assessors and examiners. The Authority has been issuing separate certificates for each category of accreditation to applicants that satisfy the accreditation criteria. In an effort to improve on the efficiency of our accreditation, TEVETA wishes to inform all st ... Read more
Dialogue towards jobs for youths
December 27, 2018 at 15:11
Creating employment for the youth is a daunting challenge to governments, technocrats, and the youth themselves. Parliamentarians feel the pressure as representatives of the people. Voices on lack of salaried and self-employment persistently reach their ears and are expected to provide solutions. Accordingly, the law makers have been working on ways to get around the challenge. The North-South Dialogue Framework is one approach they are pursuing to ensure education and training enhanced the youth’s employability and increased productivity for more opportunities for the youth. Although youth employment mirrors cross-cutting issues that include, fiscal, labour and social s ... Read more
Access to justice: Cabinet approves Legal Aid Policy as TEVETA develops paralegal curriculum
December 27, 2018 at 15:6
Access to justice is seen as a preserve of the well-to-do despite it being a fundamental human right and a catalyst to enhanced legal empowerment of the poor and vulnerable groups. Government considers legal aid interventions coupled with governance and astute poverty reduction strategies foster social and economic development process in the country. With effective and affordable access to justice, people have the opportunity to claim their rights or challenge crimes, abuses and human rights violations committed against them. Thus, a Legal Aid Policy was approved by Cabinet and launched by the Ministry of Justice. Additionally, TEVETA has developed and approved a cur ... Read more
About K10m disbursed for SME/Out-of-school-youth skills training
July 25, 2018 at 14:29
The Ministry of Higher Education through the TEVETA has signed 178 contracts worth K9.9million for out of-school Youths and SME/Informal sector training in different skill areas. The contracts were signed with 47 training providers across the country. The training contracts will benefit 140, 140 unskilled out of school youth and SME/Informal sector players that need un-skilling to enhance their productivity, efficiency and material utilisation. Funded training institutions include those under 1) Zambia Correctional Services (skills training section); 2) youth resource centres under the Ministry of Youth and Sport; 3) Ministry of General Education’s skills training ... Read more
INVITATION FOR PROPOSALS: FINANCING SKILL TRAINING FOR YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
May 8, 2018 at 12:36
FINANCING SKILL TRAINING FOR YOUTH EMPLOYMENT Background The Technical Education, Vocational, and Entrepreneurship Training Authority (TEVETA) was established under the Technical Education, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training Act of No. 13 of 1998. Among the responsibilities of TEVETA, is the management of the Technical Education, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training (TEVET) Fund. The TEVET Fund is expected to play an important role in assisting the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) develop a high quality, sustainable, demand-driven, and equitable TEVET system. The Fund establishes a financing platform that purchases training services from pu ... Read more
Availability of teachers, workshops and cost affect implementation of two-tier system – study
April 27, 2018 at 12:39
A study shows that availability of teachers, workshops and cost were the key factors that influenced the selection of the vocational subjects (under two-tier system) offered at particular schools. The study by Zambia’s Education Sector Support Technical Assistance Facility (ZESSTA) was assessing the implementation and ways of strengthening the implementation of the Vocational Education and Training (VET) component of the two-tier system outlined in the revised national curriculum. They objective of the study was to 1) identify key challenges, document best practice, identify industrial and/or public work place activity projects within the schools which could be used ... Read more
Ministry of Higher Education cautions parents, industry over fake qualifications
April 27, 2018 at 12:36
Where demand is high, there is a likelihood of high fraudulence as well. The education sector is one of the sectors facing an increase in the number of individuals presenting different qualifications some of which do not meet the standards set under qualifications frameworks across the region. The Ministry of Higher Education has since cautioned parents and industry against fraudulent qualifications offered by training institutions that were not in conformity with the Zambia Qualifications Framework (ZQF) and appropriate regulatory authorities’ quality assurance requirements. Ministry of Higher Education Permanent Secretary (PS), Mabvuto Sakala said “high demand for ... Read more
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