Is ITVET right for you?
What kind of previous know-ledge/experience/interests do you need?
Potential students should have a general interest in education and training processes. You should be interested in topics in the field of TVET work, issues of TVET research, inter-national development cooperation, internationally oriented jobs in educational policymaking or adminstration.
Quick test- Is ITVET right for you?
1. What does TVET stand for?
- a) Teaching veterans in entertainment & transition
- b) Trends in vacations and exciting trecking
- c) Technical and vocational education and training
2. What are the vital TVET topics for the next years?
- a) Sustainable development, international mobility, permeability to higher education
- b) Measurement and comparison of competencies
- c) Improved school-to-work transition, holistic competency development
3. Why is TVET so important?
- a) TVET is not important. Everybody should pursue acade-mic studies after school.
- b) Much of our environment depends on skilled manual work. Every society needs young people who acquire occupational skills and competencies and become the master craftsmen of tomorrow.
- c) Because not everybody should be admitted at a university.
Solutions:
1) c 2) a, b and c 3) b
If you have at least two correct answers, you seem to have a good interest in TVET and ITVET is definitely right for you! If you have less correct answers, you will learn many new things and ITVET is also right for you!
