Assessment of TVET – Industry Linkage: The Case of Tourism Sector in Addis Ababa City
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2022-06-20
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Addis Ababa University
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The main purpose of the study was to Assessment Technical vocational education training – Industry Linkage in the case of Tourism sector in Addis Ababa City. To meet the research objectives, mixed research approach and descriptive design were applied. Data were mainly gathered through questionnaire, interview and observation check list and official document review. The population from which the sample drawn had a size of 211 Out of this, data was gathered from 184 questioner respondents from hotels, tour operators and Technical vocational education training trainers using stratified sampling technique. Quantitative data gathered via structured questionnaire were processed through SPSS version 25 and analyzed by using descriptive statistics (frequency, percentile and mean and standard deviation), and 27 interview respondents for qualitative data through descriptive narration and written thematically for the purpose of triangulation. The findings of the study indicated that the major challenges affecting the linkage between Technical vocational education training and Tourism industry were Technical and Vocational Education and Training Agency has not been legally empowered; there is lack of awareness on the linkage; labor market studies were unsuccessful; occupational/training standards were not set by real practitioner industries and some training delivered is not standard driven; cooperative training and practical occupational assessment were not undertaken in workplace setting/industry; assessment tools are leaked out unofficially and became base for short cut trainings; and the employment opportunities of Technical and Vocational graduates are low. Moreover, trainers and higher officials lack awareness on occupational standards and real practitioner industries are not leading to training standardization and cooperative training which the latter is now declining. Colleges’ graduates have skill gaps and low employment opportunities. Based on the findings, it is recommended that Technical vocational education training should be empowered to mobilize stakeholders and its proclamation has to incorporate linkage issues that give ways to the policy and strategy improvement accordingly. Furthermore, Technical vocational education training strategy should be harmonized with tourism policy, and linkage has to be industry driven. The awareness on occupational standards should be enhanced and real practitioner industries should lead the training standardization by which cooperative training and occupational assessment be improved. Data management of assessment tools has to be x too confidential and as sort of legal frame work has to be in place regarding assessment implementation
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Technical vocational education training, Industry and Technical vocational education training -Tourism Industry Linkage