Ensuring quality in Community Education and Training institutions

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2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sampson Tawiah

In South Africa, Adult and Community Education and Training (ACET) is established to cater for the educationally disadvantaged individuals, especially rural women, hence, ACET programmes are running in the country nationally. One of the aims of ACET is to open economic opportunities for women; however, the majority of rural women are still performing poorly economically. This empirical study aimed to explore the effect of ACET on the economic development of women in the Lusikisiki district of South Africa. A qualitative approach in the form of a case study design was used for the study to help the researcher relate to the real life circumstances of the women. Purposive sampling was used to select 35 participants from a population of 115. The participants were selected because they had wealth of information and could explain better the phenomenon under study. Data collection instruments used were face to face individual interviews which were audio recorded with the consent of participants. The major findings of the investigation include the following: inadequate learning resources available to women; inadequate skills development programmes provided and skeptical perception of the economic benefit of ACET to women. The study suggested that the programmes of ACET should be restructured and skills driven to meet the needs of women, especially in rural communities.


1999 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 20-23
Author(s):  
M. W. Krause ◽  
M. J. Viljoen ◽  
M. J. Bezuidenhout

 The move to an outcomes-based education and training system in South Africa presents higher education and training institutions with a challenge to review their curricula and to adapt to changes brought about by the new education and health care dispensations. Key aspects of the move to outcomes-based education and training as contained in the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) Act, information regarding the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) and other matters informing curriculum review are addressed. The Department of Physiotherapy of the University of the Orange Free State has just completed the first phase of restructuring its education and training programme in order to submit the qualification for registration on the NQF. The rationale behind the shift to an outcomes-based, student-centred curriculum and the key features of the programme are briefly discussed, as this is the first step towards the registration of unit standards/qualifications, a process which all education and training institutions will have to embark upon soon.


Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 623
Author(s):  
Jawad Shah

The training of Imams and Muslim religious leaders has received much interest in the post-9/11 era, resulting in a vast amount of research and publications on the topic. The present work explores this literature with the aim of analysing key debates found therein. It finds that throughout the literature there is a pervasive demand for reform of the training and education provided by Muslim higher education and training institutions (METIs) and Islamic studies programmes at universities in the shape of a synthesis of the two pedagogic models. Such demands are founded on the claim that each is lacking in the appositeness of its provision apropos of the British Muslim population. This article calls for an alternative approach to the issue, namely, that the university and the METI each be accorded independence and freedom in its pedagogic ethos and practice (or else risk losing its identity), and a combined education from both instead be promoted as a holistic training model for Muslim religious leadership.


1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 244-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pier Giacomo Sola

The Commission of the European Communities promotes, largely through its COMETT Programme (Community Education and Training in Technology), the establishment of partnerships between universities and enterprises in the field of education and training. The author discusses the achievements of such partnerships, and highlights some of the common problems they face, in the context of the activities of one such organization–Amitié, the Association for Managerial and Vocational Training in Software and Information Technologies in Europe.


Author(s):  
Lyudmila Batsenko ◽  
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Shuangshan Ruan ◽  
Svitlana Dubovyk ◽  
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After years of development, the number of education and training institutions has decreased but the market size has continued to increase. The reason is the rise of online education. The development trend of combining online and offline education needs to innovate the personal development of teachers. This paper studies the development trend of the education and training industry, draws inspiration from the development trend for the personal development of teachers, and builds a personal development model for teachers based on the iceberg model. It is intended to provide innovative suggestions for the development of teachers in the education and training industry.


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