The ideological underpinnings of World Bank TVET policy: Implications of the influence of Human Capital Theory on South African TVET policy
| Autor: | Siphelo Ngcwangu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Education as Change. 19:24-45 |
| ISSN: | 1947-9417 1682-3206 |
| Popis: | From taking a long-standing position against TVET, the World Bank's most recent education policy has seen a shift to its promotion and then a seeming retraction. The World Bank argues that the occupational route to skills training is the better way to go. The Bank argues that the occupational route rather than general education provides better opportunities for employment in the labour market. The change in opinion – ironically for a bank devoted to market functionality – is a market failure in matching skills to employment opportunities. The World Bank defines the growth of the demand of TVET in many regions as resulting in a need for quality promotion, stronger regulation and allocation of more financial resources towards TVET. Recent academic critiques (Klees, Samoff & Stromquist 2012) of the World Bank's 2020 (hereafter referred WBES 2020; World Bank 2011) strategy have looked at the broad educational focus of the WBES 2020. This article focuses on the Technical and Vocational Education and Tr... |
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