Reform of vocational education and training in Tanzania and Zimbabwe
Bennell, Paul / 2000

Since the late 1980s, there has been are clear indications that the push for reform of vocational education and training (VET) provision has increased in Africa, in particular with respect to the decline in donor support for VET and the advent of comprehensive structural adjustment programmes. There is an acute shortage, however, of detailed empirical research on how VET policies and provision have changed during the last decade. Recent research by UK co-ordinated teams in Tanzania and Zimbabwe identifies the main changes in the provision of formal, off-the-job VET by both public and private training institutions in these countries, and analyses the main factors that have influenced policy reforms.