Programmkurzbeschreibung

Title: Program for Implementation of Cooperative (dual) Vocational Education System
Commissioned by: Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ)
Country: Egypt
Lead executing agency: Ministry of Education (MoE)
Overall term: July 1995 to March 2008

Context

The vocational education system in Egypt is fully school based, of very poor quality and lacking any market demand orientation. Every year approximately 600,000 students graduate from technical secondary schools to find no opportunities in the labour market.
Within the reform of the technical education and vocational training system in Egypt – initiated in 1991 by the Mubarak-Kohl Initiative – the cooperation of ministries with their schools, training centres and private sector training facilities leads to an increase in the quality of vocational education. In turn this will create a more highly qualified graduate with a resultant improved employability.

Objective

The four components of the programme are aiming for the following impact:

1. The role of the state in the VET system becoming both institutionalized with the newly established General Directorate of VET in the Ministry of Education (MoE) and defined in the framework of the national vocational training policy.
2. The private sector’s role as motivating force and ‘owner’ of the dual system in the VET reform programme being approved and actively recognised. A National Centre for HRD is coordinating the private sector’s training responsibility all over the country.
3. Demand oriented qualification instruments for the implementation of the dual system in the construction sector being both established and functional.
4. The integration of the dual system with the national vocational training system.
   

Approach

The consolidation should be intensified and the responsibility of implementation should rest increasingly in the hands of the local and regional partners. Thereby coordination with other bilateral and multilateral donors and implementation organisations –  particularly WB and EU – play an important role. The dissemination of the dual approach should continue and is planned to expand to other regions of the country, as well as to new sectors. The standardisation of the process of system reform, the provision of learning experience, and the availability of transferable elements, modules and processes should replace the development process currently in operation.
The establishment of project oriented structures based on the pilot projects in organisational and legally based institutions on regional and national levels is a major task.  

Results achieved so far

Up to date, in Egypt dual vocational education has been established in 28 occupations in 24 governorates and in 45 Technical Secondary Schools (TSS). In total, 16,000 trainees have been trained together with 1,600 training companies. This represents the beginning in the process of integrating the vocational training system with the demands of a sustainable economy. 17 HRD – Units of Business Associations are coordinating the training between companies and TSS or training centres.
Previous pilot projects under the new programme approach have been established as dissemination centres where new occupations are developed, teaching and learning aids are compiled, and teaching and managerial personnel from public and private sector are qualified to further disseminate the new programme.