Vocational trainingVocational School Mikolongwe The establishment of Mikolongwe Vocational School was a response by Development Aid from People to People in Malawi to the situation in Malawi and to the appeal by the Malawian government to fight poverty.
The Vocational School Mikolongwe in Chiradzulu was established in 1997 to train young people in technical and entrepreneurship skills necessary for them to contribute to the development of the country.
The vocational school caters for young men and women who cannot continue with their education due to lack of funds and those who cannot take up any form of employment because they lack the necessary technical skills. The vocational school offers training in financial accounting, building construction, tropical agriculture, and carpentry & joinery. The vocational school enrols 80 full time students and more than 100 students for short time courses. The short time courses are for people in the informal sector to develop their entrepreneurship skills. Besides formal programmes the vocational school runs an informal programme, skills Development Initiative Programme in collaboration with Technical Entrepreneurial Vocational Education and Training (TEVET). The programme aims to improve the skills of people living and working in the informal sector, these are people who have never had any formal training but they inherited their skill from their parents. TEVET is a government run body aimed at promoting and improving technical and vocational training. The skills development initiative programme is training former street children who have no skills, no education and living on begging. The street children are trained in tailoring, brick laying and tinsmith for a month, graduate and start working on their own.
The trainee students go for industrial attachment as part of their training. The students on attachment take up employment in their different vocations in established companies. 95 % of the students who went for industrial attachment in 2003 got employed in 2004. The vocational school has graduated more than 600 students. 76 % of the graduates are employed, 8% are furthering their education and 5% are self-employed.
The vocational school has HIV/AIDS awareness programs in the curriculum. The vocational school is carrying out a research and development programme in dairy farming and this has a potential of boosting the economy of the country. |  |
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Mikolongwe vocational school
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