Analysis of Community Perceptions on Vocational Education and Training in Shinyanga Region: A reflection from owners of vocational training centers.

Sumbi, Milingwa (2023) Analysis of Community Perceptions on Vocational Education and Training in Shinyanga Region: A reflection from owners of vocational training centers. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

Education and appropriate skills training are key important to individual and National development. Inadequate development level in Vocational Education and training (VET) in a country, leads to poor industrial development. In Tanzania, today and before independence, the technical or vocational skills offered created a negative attitude where few students opt for technical or vocational education. This hampers creativity, innovation and acquisition of entrepreneurial skills which are vital to the development of technologies that would lead to rural industrialization. Technical or vocational programs have been identified as major hygiene for youth development and training, yet have very low enrollment. This study investigated Community Perception on Vocational Education and Training in Shinyanga Region: a reflection from owners of vocational training centers. The population of the study included 170 of respondents from Shinyanga Region. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the study sample. An interview schedule was the instrument used for data collection. Content analysis was applied on the qualitative data collected. Findings indicated, negative community attitudes and poor image on VET owners are reasons for low enrollment levels. These findings are likely to stimulate action on restructuring the management of youth polytechnics to raise public appeal.  Keywords: Vocational Education Centers, Vocational Education and Training Centers Owners, Public and Private Vocational Education and Training centers.

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