APWEN urged to improve women participation in STEM
To limit dependency on foreign engineering products and manpower, engineers have called on government to initiate policies that would revive technical and vocational education in the country.
They said that building the future should be non-negotiable and driven through the use of technical, vocational education as well as industrial partnerships for local content development.
To them, despite government’s successes and efforts in the past through technical and vocational education to reduce poverty, hunger and unemployment, the challenge persists due to insufficient funding, poor state of facilities, brain drain/search for greener pastures, poor staff training and retention mechanism, static and parallel curriculum of technical education and dis-integrated educational value system.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) is gearing up their steps to introduce the Outcome-Based Education (OBE) system for all universities in the country with a view to producing skilled graduates as per demands of job markets. The UGC is considering the OBE system to introduce as it is crucial
May 3, 2021
Danial Norjidi
A new phase was recently launched for European Union’s (EU) Support to Higher Education in the ASEAN Region (SHARE) programme.
The new phase will support 300 students for one semester of intra-ASEAN physical mobility before the end of 2022, as well as the harmonisation of ASEAN higher education institutions and the formulation of ASEAN high education frameworks.
A joint press release stated that in doing so, ASEAN and the EU will share experience, including the EU’s Erasmus scheme. The EU has allocated EUR5 million for this purpose, and the support will build on the previous successful SHARE programme, which ran since 2015.
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