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ATUPA holds 2023 worldwide conference in Accra

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Sep 4, 2023
ATUPA holds 2023 worldwide conference in Accra

The Association of Technical Universities and Polytechnics in Africa (ATUPA) held its 2023 global conference in Accra. The conference, which occurred from August 27 to September 2, 2023, was hung on the style of “Mainstreaming Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for Skills Development, Mobility, and Resilient Economies in Africa.” ATUPA was established in 2019, following a resolution of the General Assembly of Heads of Member Institutions of the Commonwealth Association of Technical Universities and Polytechnics in Africa (CAPA). The choice was validated by the Ministers of Education from AU member states at the Third Ordinary Session of the Specialized Committee on Education, Science and Technology (STC– EST III) in 2019. The conference intended to make use of the lessons gained from the constraints of existing TVET shows designs to promote a post-pandemic argument amongst TVET stakeholders. It looked for to produce global and trans-institutional conversation styles and Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) structures that would not just bring ingenious techniques to TVET shows in Africa, however likewise balance the conception of TVET and its contributions to Africa’s social and financial advancement objectives. The conference highlighted the function of sustainable TVET designs in developing the strength of African economies; created agreement on the effectiveness of balanced TVET ideas in improving the work results of TVET graduates at local and continental levels; and determined brand-new understanding streams on how digitization, variety, and addition might be leveraged in structure multinational and trans-institutional TVET linkages. The conference likewise promoted shared understanding on how the optimization of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) proficiencies in TVET can stimulate entrepreneurial knowing and work-ready abilities amongst TVET graduates, and developed active, international TVET research study clusters and Strategic Interest Groups (SIGs) amongst ATUPA member organizations.

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