As part of an effort to consolidate a national agenda around technical training, UNESCO Peru and the Ministry of Education (MINEDU) presented in Lima on June 18 the study entitled “Review of Peru’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training Policy”. This review of public policy, based on UNESCO’s methodology, seeks to contribute to strengthening a strategic agenda aimed at improving educational and employment opportunities for thousands of young people and adults across the country.
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) encompasses the different forms of learning development directly linked to productive activities and to the acquisition of skills throughout life.
The event was held at the Ministry of Education and brought together authorities from the education and labor sectors, representatives of training institutions, the productive sector, international cooperation agencies and the academic community, including the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Fundación Romero, Plan International, CESAL, the National Education Council (CNE), the Peruvian Institute of Economics (IPE), PRONABEC, the Regional Directorate of Education of Metropolitan Lima (DRELM), among others.
During the opening ceremony, UNESCO Representative in Peru Guiomar Alonso highlighted that technical training is a fundamental tool for expanding opportunities, strengthening life pathways, developing skills for work and life, improving employability and responding to the country’s productive, social and territorial needs.
“The study invites us to reflect on how to build a more coordinated, relevant technical training system that is connected to real opportunities for personal, professional and territorial development,” she stated.
The UNESCO Representative emphasized the urgency of strengthening this system: only one out of every ten young people graduating from basic education accesses technological higher education, while approximately 47% of companies face difficulties filling vacancies, particularly for technical profiles.
For his part, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Education, Ebert Ordinola, highlighted the recommendations made by the UNESCO study: “particularly those related to strengthening system coordination, improving governance, enhancing the relevance of training provision and consolidating mechanisms that promote more flexible, inclusive and relevant educational and employment pathways for citizens,” he emphasized.
read more: https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/unesco-and-minedu-present-study-strengthen-technical-and-vocational-education-and-training-oriented?hub=701
