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5.3.2 Pre-employment: Public sector training

Guest post by: International Labour Organization

Article Overview: Most post-secondary public VET institutions have no explicit goals with respect to poverty reduction.

5.3.2 Pre-employment: Public sector training

Most post-secondary public VET institutions have no explicit goals with respect to poverty reduction. In part, this is because tertiary enrolment ratios are simply too small in most developing countries for there to be much scope in educating more than a tiny fraction of the poor, at least for the foreseeable future. Efforts to reduce gender enrolment disparities in universities, technical colleges and other tertiary education institutions have been more widespread, but little or no research has been undertaken that has assessed the extent and nature of these various interventions (in particular scholarships, quotas and lower entrance requirements) and their outcomes. Interventions of this kind become increasingly less important once gender inequalities in access have been effectively redressed in primary and secondary schools, and for this reason, governments and donors are correct in attaching top priority to policy reforms in this area.

EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING
PAPERS
43
Learning to change: Skills
development among the
economically vulnerable and
socially excluded in
developing countries
Paul Bennell
Employment and Training Department
International Labour Office Geneva
First published 1999

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