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Crowd-funding + Renewable energy, a developing trend in the world

While the world, especially the developing world needs massive amounts of fund investments to provide basic necessities like solar lighting and mini-grids, cooking cleaner, water and sanitation, etc., funding is not always forthcoming from the regular quarters. This is where the concept of crowdfunding can come in handy. Read more […]

September 10, 2012

Pakistan: EU funded vocational training programme launched

Under its programme to help the socio-economic conditions of vulnerable communities, EU-sponsored 3-year long vocational training programme, worth €3.046 million is soon to commence in Pakistan. Read more here.

September 10, 2012

Pakistan: Government to spend PKR 2.95 billion on technical training programmes

The Pakistani Government has earmarked a sum of PKR 2.95 billion to provide as many as ten technical programmes nationally. The target of this programme is to train a total of 212,621 unemployed people, and a stipend of PKR 2000 is to be paid to participants. Read more here.

September 10, 2012

South Korea offers training to North Korean defectors

In the light of an increasing number of defections of North Korean citizens into South Korea, the South Korean government revealed a vocational training programme. However, the cultural difference are encouraging double defections, despite adequate training skills provision, prompting thoughts in the direction of a strategy that implements an integration […]

September 10, 2012

India: Vocational training to be introduced as a fourth stream in West Bengal schools

From the 2013-2014 session, another educational stream will be added to the existing three (Humanities, Science and Commerce) in the government and government-aided schools, for students of classes X and XII. This stream will be the vocational training stream. Read more here.

September 10, 2012

Tunisia: Increase in the number of training positions

Under the Tunisian Agency for Vocational Training (ATFP), some 36,385 training posts were available in 2011. Under these posts, specialities were offered in accordance with the economic fabric of each region. This year, there are some 37,733 training positions available. Read more here.

September 10, 2012

Ghana: NVTI/IDEF start nationwide accreditation and training programme

The National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) and IDEF (Informal Sector Development Foundation) in Ghana have rolled out a massive identification and accreditation programme for all MCPs (Master Craft Persons) so as to equip them with upgraded skills. Read more here.

September 10, 2012

Reflections from Rwanda’s 10,000 Women Graduation Programme

This post gives a touching review of the 31-day entrepreneurship course called ‘10,000 Women’ entrepreneurship course, conducted by Goldman Sachs in association with WDI (William Davidson Institute). For women who have not had much in terms of school education, this is a direct encouragement into the mainstream employment scenario, through […]

September 10, 2012

Tanzania: New Commissioner of Education takes over

The newly appointed Commissioner of Education in Tanzania aims to eradicate the challenges rife in the education sector in the country, including those of loss of teaching morale, poor results in examinations, and more. Read more here.