The Role of the University as Mediator in a Skills Ecosystem Approach to VET

Lotz-Sisitka, Heila; Openjuru, George; Zeelen, Jacques

Title: The Role of the University as Mediator in a Skills Ecosystem Approach to VET
Creator: Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
Creator: Openjuru, George
Creator: Zeelen, Jacques
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2023
Date: 2023
Type: text
Type: book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/434907
Identifier: vital:73115
Identifier: ISBN 978-1529224634
Identifier: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/transitioning-vocational-education-and-training-in-africa
Description: In this chapter, we focus particularly on the mediating role of the university, in close connection with vocational institutions and informal community actors, in developing an inclusive approach to vocational education and training (VET) through an expanded social ecosystem for skills model. Here we draw upon lessons learnt from the Alice and Gulu cases on communitybased approaches to establishing an expanded skills ecosystem approach to VET in Africa. The main ques-tion guiding this chapter relates to the possible mediating role of the university to enhance a regional expanded ecosystem for supporting quality vocational education that is also rele-vant to its context, including emergent possibilities to build skills and livelihoods linked to just transitions. Universities are not VET centres as conventionally understood, but they can contribute to VET in various ways. Most often, universities are identified as contributing to the qualifications and training of VET educators. In this chapter, we take a different angle and consider the role of engaged research and community engagement as two approaches that can contribute to the advancement of an expanded social ecosystem model with positive benefits for VET institutions. Drawing on insights gained in the earlier chapters of this book requires us to take into account several important realities as previously dis-cussed, as well as key ingredients for the development of a regional skills ecosystem of vocational education, as demon-strated by the two cases considered in this chapter.
Format: 19 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Language: English
Relation: Lotz-Sisitka, H., Openjuru, G. and Zeelen, J., 2023. The Role of the University as Mediator in a Skills Ecosystem Approach to VET. In Transitioning Vocational Education and Training in Africa (pp. 139-157). Bristol University Press
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