The Attitude of Tvet Trainees towards Self-employment in Afar Regional State
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2011-07
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
TVET has become one of the tools for economic recovery and development. In the
context of Ethiopia 's national strategy, TVET is meant to contribute to a large scale
dissemination of scienti fic and technologica l know-how, facilitate job creation and
enhance the quality of life by expanding the students' technical capacity and promoting
professional skills which would help them to improve th eir livelihoods .
Concerning the Afar reg ional state, the establishment of modern education is a recent
phenomenon . Particularly, TVET Colleges were established very recently.
One of the discouraging factors for self-employment was lack of guarantee for the
private enterprises in the face of unexpected crises. Lack of industriousness and low
expansion of investment were the other discouraging factors for self-employment.
This study has attempted to explore the challenges and opportunities of selfemployment
to TVET trainees and graduates by collecting data from primary and
secondary sources. Primary sources refer to information obtained from in terviews , focus
group discussions and document analysis. Such sources were pivotal since they
depicted the actual phenomena in the study area. Secondary sources were also used
to give a broader background of issues drawn from conceptual framework for the study.
Most of such secondary sources were books and some materials that deal with the
existing two TVET colleges in Afar regional state.
The findings revealed that the TVET trainees ' have a negative attitude towards selfemployment
for several reasons. Such reasons are explained in detail. Also this study
has found out that the institutional capacity of the TVETs is also too weak. Hence, th is
study has unearthed the challenges and opportunities of TVET and has provided a set
of conclusions and recommendations in line with original data gathered in the study
area . Hence, among other things, it is suggested that to tackle such problems working
on altitudinal change towards TVETs and improving the institutiona l capacities and
facilities of the TVET institutions suggested being mandatory.
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TVET has become one of the tools for economic recovery