TVET curriculum gets reviewed

A section of those who attended the consultation
A section of those who attended the consultation

As part of the process of reviewing the national curriculum dealing specifically with the Technical Vocational Educational Training (TVET) program, stakeholders met at a consultation held at the Fort Young Hotel on Tuesday to give their input to it.

In the new school term the Ministry of Education plans to implement the TVET program at all secondary schools in Dominica.

“We now employ the members of the industry, the practitioners in the industry, the people, hopefully, who will be hiring the students who will graduate from this program to tell us what you think, and rather, what we are proposing to teach our students, to tell us what else you think we should add, what they think we should delete, how we should modify our approach to teaching technical and vocational skills in our schools,” TVET Coordinator in the Ministry of Education, Abraham Durand said while speaking at the opening ceremony of the consultation.

Durand hoped that the session will be beneficial not only to the ministry but, “ to yourselves as industry practitioners and it will guide you as you assist us when we call upon you for advise or internship for assignments for our students.”

“Because this is how we intend to craft and deliver the technical and vocational education program in the country,” he noted.

Secretary of the Dominica TVET council, Merrill Matthew, said at the consultation that TVET is viewed differently from the past.

“The new world system sees TVET differently from the way we saw it many years ago,” he stated. “Many years ago if you could not pass common entrance then you were sent to do TVET, if you did miserably in GCE exams TVET for you, if you did not perform well at CXC, TVET for you. So it was viewed as punishment, it was viewed as second class but today in the global village, TVET is on equal footing with any other form and type and style of education.”

Acting Senior Education of the Curriculum Measurement and Evaluation Unit, Robert Guiste, agreed.

“TVET is not for the disadvantaged,” he noted. “It is not for those who did not pass the common entrance or those who may drop out at form three, TVET should be for everybody.”

Additionally he noted that “We at the Ministry of Education realize that and so we are making TVET compulsory especially in the area of agriculture for every student, so from form one I am hoping that you will put in a curriculum guide and students must choose a TVET subject and part of our plans is to have every child graduate with a CVQ.”

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2 Comments

  1. The Real Facts
    July 7, 2015

    Every student cannot excel in certain or all subjects.
    Let us say, God did not create us all the same and to love the same subjects even though we must try to study them, pass the exam and hopefully graduate.
    Some of them may not like all the subjects they must take in order to graduate.
    One likes maths, the other English, another history and still another geography or literature and so on.
    This does not mean they are dull learners and unintelligent. Yet, given the opportunity in a vocational school, they will love it and also graduate.
    Note how many careers there are. Eventually each one branches out into their chosen career. Some of the subjects they spent time to learn were of no use to them in latter years in their career. Some even proved to be more intelligent than their boss.
    I endorse TVET for all students.

  2. Shaka zulu
    July 7, 2015

    Excellent!!!!! Long overdue but better late than never.

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