This policy brief outlines issues related to access, equity and success for female and other vulnerable students. It identifies gender and inclusion-related barriers and challenges, and provides recommendations for changes in areas such as policy, programming, teaching and learning, and institutional management.
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Making the saying “Disability is not inability” a reality
STEP has partnered with Africa Vision Malawi to provide bursaries to vulnerable students, often those with physical disabilities, to learn technical skills. Since July, 60 students have received bursaries to take courses in carpentry and joinery, basic electronics, and tailoring. Patricia Jester, a young woman who suffers from claw hand,
NEW TEVET INSTRUCTORS UNDERGO A TRAINING ON THE DELIVERY OF LESSONS
On 18th September STEP kick-started a series of Competency Based Training and Assessment (CBT&A) programmes (3) in the Southern region, at Domasi Teacher Training College. Additional trainings will be held in the Northern and the central region during October and November this year. The training target 120 TEVET instructors recently
Writing a Business plan – Financial literacy and entrepreneurship training
STEP partner Student Driven Solutions ran a session today with bursary holders in Mitundu on business planning. The training sessions follow their classes in financial literacy, negotiation, marketing, and social enterprise. Over the next weeks, the bursary holders will develop their business plans with support from Student Driven Solutions teachers
New Community Technical College Opens
The Ministry of Labour, Youth, Sports and Manpower Development held the official opening of the Aida Chilembwe Community Technical College, in Chilembwe on Thursday, 13th September. The new CTC will offer seven programmes, namely, brick-laying, carpentry and joinery, textile and fashion design, fabrication and welding, plumbing, electrical installation, and ICT.
STEP launches a bursary program with Student Driven Solutions on entrepreneurship and skills training
STEP has recently launched a bursary program with Student Driven Solutions, a local NGO that provides financial literacy and entrepreneurship skills to vulnerable women. Women will be empowered both economically and socially through the provision of bursaries to access high quality and effective entrepreneurship training program and skills training. The
LITERACY AND SKILLS FOR ECONOMIC STABILITY
STEP participated in this year’s International Literacy Day commemoration which took place on 8 September at Manyamula Skills Development ground in the area of Paramount Chief Mbelwa in Mzimba district. The commemoration was a combination of International Literacy Day (8 September) and World Youth Skills Day which falls on 15
STEP Delivers Programme in Training Course Development
A key objective for the Skills and Technical Education Programme is to improve the quality and relevance of TEVET. An important element in achieving this objective is enhancing capacity among TEVET practitioners in systematic training course development. To contribute to this capacity development, STEP organised a workshop from Monday 27th to
Empowering students through promotion of inclusive learning environments
At the end of August, TEVET instructors from African Vision Malawi, Zayed Energy and Ecology Centre, Soche Technical College, Nasawa Technical College, Stephanos Vocational Centre, and Naminjiwa Community Technical College came together for a training on gender responsive pedagogy in TEVET. The goal of the training was to equip the
STEP conducts Management Capacity Building for TEVET Providers in Malawi
Skills and Technical Education Programme-STEP organized and conducted a 10-day training workshop for TEVET managers in Dowa district in Malawi. The Management Capacity Building for TEVET providers was facilitated by UNEVOC, through a number of facilitators from South Africa, Germany, Ghana and Malawi. The training started on 16th August and
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