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About Tunisia Education Vocational Training
About Tunisia Education Vocational Training
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Originally
designed to support a policy for restructuring industrial companies
and subsequently to support the overall economy, the program for
updating training and employment (MANFORME) was a reform that needed
to be implemented when Tunisia became part of the European Union’s
free-trade area in 1995. It therefore benefited from financial and/or
technical support from the World Bank, the European Union, the AFD
(French Development Agency), the FADES (Arab Fund for Economic and
Social Development), Germany, Belgium, Canada and Japan.
Driven
by the economy’s need for skills, the new vocational training
system is a determining factor in companies’ competitiveness, in
promoting private investment, especially foreign investment and
consequently, in creating jobs. The necessity for qualified young
people to be employable has led to a skills-based approach being
adopted when developing educational tools, and a preference for
apprenticeships and alternate college/workplace (sandwich) courses at
the training method level. Implementing quality procedures in all
vocational training modules will ensure that the knowledge acquired
from the reform is capitalized on, thanks to a decentralized
management model that interacts with and is answerable to the
vocational training centers.
What
is new in this reform is the systematic use of partnerships within
the different vocational fields as a framework for its
implementation.
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