ADDIS ABABA – Technical and Vocational Education and Training Agency in collaboration with Ministry of Agriculture, development partners launched national curriculum and assessment process on dairy, horticulture and poultry production courses.
In an exclusive interview with The Ethiopian Herald Habtamu Kibret, Agency Deputy Director General said that the launch of national curriculum has paramount importance for scaling up TVETs’ quality training by assisting students acquire basic knowledge and training.
The curriculum is also vital to solve problems related with decentralized educational platforms coupled with modernizing agriculture, he noted. He further stated that the agency also revised additional 57 curriculums apart from preparing about 700 instructional guides for TVET program at the first quarter of Ethiopian fiscal year.
Mesele Chane, Country Manager of Agricultural Transformation Through Stronger Vocational Education (ATTSVE) project, on his part told The Ethiopian Herald that this project enables TVET students to access modern technologies besides supporting agro processing.
He also said that institutional transformation, instructors’ training, networking and linkage among TVETs are the major pillars that have been conducted by the project in collaboration with the agency.
As to him, pilot operation of the curriculum is being implementing on four selected regional Agricultural TVETs.
Cognizant of the fact that delegates from Maichew of Tigrai, Woreta of Amhara, Wolita Sodo of SNNP and Nejo of Oromia regions’ ATVET institutions conveyed there message across participants that conducting and applying national curriculum is particularly important to centralize education system across the country in addition to modernizing agriculture.
The Ethiopian Herald January 16/2020
BY HIZKEL HAILU
