Libya: ETF helps build modern VET

Libya’s Board for Technical and Vocational Education together with the ETF held a workshop  in the capital Tripoli that launched the Torino Process, a review of the state the vocational education and training (VET) in the country. The meeting at the College for Tourism and Hospitality in Tripoli on 12 December was opened by Fathi Akkari, Deputy Minister of Higher Education, who is in charge of the Board.
The event was also an opportunity for the participants to learn about the ETF’s current activities in Libya, the new EU-funded regional project on governance for employability in the Mediterranean (GEMM), and about the opportunities to network and learn from peers at various events, which the ETF will organise in the region and beyond.
‘What we expect from the Torino Process in Libya is a shared, evidence-based analysis of the challenges facing VET system and the ways forward’, said Mounir Baati, ETF country manager for Libya. Mr Baati identified a number of critical points in vocational education and training in Libya, among them:

•    the fact that VET reform is a new issue in the country,   
•    stakeholders are not used to work together, their roles are often new to them,
•    the accurate data on labour market are hard to obtain.

At the meeting a steering committee and a working group was agreed to be set up within the next four weeks. The working group will gather data and evidence, review the existent literature and report back to the committee. The initial findings will be presented to the ETF in the first half of 2013. Read more...