> UNESCO-UNEVOC Asia Pacific Conference
> Adelaide, Australia, 26-28 March, 2001
>
> Small Pacific Island States Priorities for Technical and Vocational Education and Training
> The small Pacific Island States representatives at the UNESCO-UNEVOC meeting held in Adelaide 25 - 29 March 2001 discussed national and Pacific priorities for the development of technical and vocational education and training (TVET).
> It was agreed that while national priorities vary from country to country, according to their socio-economic conditions and stage of development with technical and vocational education and training, some common regional needs could be identified:
> * raising the status of TVET
> * the provision of quality teachers and ongoing staff development
> * development of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) curricula (including information and communication technologies) to meet national and community needs and aspirations (at all levels and forms of life-long vocational learning) and to include flexible delivery modes such as distance and open learning
> * accreditation framework(s) for national, sub-regional and international recognition of Pacific technical and vocational education and training qualifications
> * review and/or development of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) policies including where necessary research into economic development, labour and human resource force needs
> The needs have also been drawn from a number of recent documents including:
> * Focus on the Pacific Action Plan 1998 (UNESCO)
> * Basic Education and Life Skills (BELS), the Pacific regional plan for Education for All 1990-2001
> * Survey of Pacific TVET needs and priorities 2001 (UNESCO)
> The small Pacific Island States representatives at the Adelaide meeting agreed that a variety of approaches could be used to support Pacific efforts to raise the status of and to develop TVET nationally and in the sub-region. Some of the approaches identified as priorities included the use of existing and new methods for sharing of knowledge, the exchange of information, the development of a database of TVET programmes and initiatives or a resource centre, Pacific workshops and mobile training teams to support national activities and technical support for policy development. The representatives welcomed the TVET teaching materials being developed by the Commonwealth of Learning.
> Finally, it was agreed that funding for equipment and resources will be necessary to provide TVET opportunities at the level needed in the Pacific.
> http://www.unevoc.de/events/ev0103a1.htm
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