The Botswana Training Authority (BOTA) in conjunction with the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Forum will once again commemorate the TVET Week. The commemoration starts from the 19 -25 November 2007. The Week’s activities will be spread mostly in the Ngami land and Ghantsi areas.

The BOTA is responsible for, among others, coordinating the development skill standards and quality assurance of vocational training activities in the country for competence at the workplace. This coordination involves participation of each economic sector (industry) and vocational training institutions (including workplaces) as well promoting access to vocational training and skills development.

The purpose of the TVET Week is to mainly promote skills development as core to democracy, development and efficiency at the work place. BOTA and the TVET Forum are desirous of making skills development through quality assured training, everybody’s responsibility. The TVET Week will have achieved its purpose if leadership, at every level, demands quality in training institutions, trainers, assessors and training programmes. We appeal to industry, at every sector, to take keen interest in making training in Botswana more relevant to their needs by participating in the BOTA training standards development exercise.

 The traditional stereotype of devaluing vocational training is slowly dying off. Youth, adults and employers alike appreciate the value of skills development as critical to employment creation and poverty alleviation.

Theme:

‘Taking Information to the People through TVET’.

Objectives:To promote vocational training as core to all organisational activities in promoting

Competencies at the work place. (TVET Exhibitions)

To promote access to vocational training by promoting computer literacy at a tender age. (eg Hiwel)

To coordinate skills development for economic diversification. (Graduation, Farmers breakfast)