Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in technical high schools has opened the pathway to helping the government achieve its vision 2050 goal. Education TVET officer Lasa Korepa said Grade 12 students from those schools stand more chances of securing jobs. Korepa told The National that the TVET concept evolved from vocational which was integrated with academic concept and is now taught in Technical High Schools. In the past vocational is for drop outs. “Here in Papua New Guinea, we see vocational as a low class education system,” he said. TVET has therefore opened a pathway which is called parallel education system – a main stream and a TVET stream. “After Grade 8, the top cream is placed in general stream nine, the bottom stream (TVET) is taken out and broken into two categories again,” he said. “The first one is a good IQ student and the second one is a Psyco motor character, so the good IQ goes to Grade 9 TVET so the second category goes to vocational. “The programme they attained only provides technical skills only and no academic.” He said students with good IQ do trade courses as well as academic – English, mathematics, science and social science where compulsory courses. He said this has allowed students to always go back to main stream as they progress and take up professional courses if they wish to. Korepa says Don Bosco Technical Secondary is an example of school that has TVET programme as well as normal academic programmes.
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