Vocational training and employment opportunities: a case of Mtwara region
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Date
2010
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Sokoine University of Agriculture
Abstract
The study was conducted in Mtwara district. Mtwara Region to examine the current status
and future utility of vocational training in PPTCs and graduate's access into the labour
market. A cross-sectional study was applied. A sample of 120 respondents was
interviewed.
questionnaires, were used for collecting data. Data were analyzed using Statistical Package
for Social Science (SPSS). Descriptive analysis employed the use of frequencies and
percentage. The study revealed that, majority of vocational graduates has secured
employment in informal economy through self-employment in carpentry, tailoring and
bricklaying. The study also found that only 13% accounted for female graduates in
vocational skills. Less number of women joins vocational training in rural areas. Besides
vocational training in Post Primary Technical Centers are faced with lack of skilled
vocational instructors, working tools and materials and insufficient food provision. It was
concluded that vocational training had contributed highly in enabling vocational graduates
in securing self-employment in Mtwara. The study recommends that, stakeholders of
vocational training to mobilize training inputs including, physical, financial, and human
resource to improve trainees' quality learning and performance, mobilize females to join
vocational training and provide working tools to graduates as initial capital as well as
establish association of service providers and SACCOS as a means for accessing to microfinancing
institutions.
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Vocational training, Labour market., PPTCs, Mtwara district