This report seeks to assist the Governments of Botswana, Lesotho, and Zambia to more effectively ... more This report seeks to assist the Governments of Botswana, Lesotho, and Zambia to more effectively develop job ready secondary education graduates, who are better placed to increase their earnings and stay out of poverty. The report provides specific and practical suggestions for teachers, schools, and ministries to improve the job-readiness of secondary education graduates, and, in turn, is intended to facilitate a sharing of national and international experiences in the three participating countries. This report summarizes the main findings and recommendations for improving job-readiness in secondary education in Botswana, Lesotho, and Zambia. Overall, the report calls for a reform process of instruction, curriculum, assessment, and structure of secondary education national education movements led by teachers and principals to more effectively develop entrepreneurial graduates with critical thinking, problem-solving, team-working, and strong foundational skills. This should be suppo...
This brief summarizes a report that seeks to assist the Governments of Botswana, Lesotho, and Zam... more This brief summarizes a report that seeks to assist the Governments of Botswana, Lesotho, and Zambia to more effectively develop job ready secondary education graduates, who are better placed to increase their earnings and stay out of poverty. The brief provides recommendations specific to Lesotho.
Shortage of skills remains one of the major constraints to continued growth of the Indian economy... more Shortage of skills remains one of the major constraints to continued growth of the Indian economy. This employer survey seeks to address this knowledge-gap by answering three questions: Which skills do employers consider important when hiring new engineering graduates? How satisfied are the employers with the skills of engineering graduates? and In which important skills are the engineers falling short? The results confirm a widespread dissatisfaction with the current graduates. After classifying all skills by factor analysis, the authors conclude that employers perceive soft skills (core employability skills and communication skills) to be very important. The findings suggest that engineering education institutions should seek to improve the skill set of graduates, recognize the importance of soft skills, refocus the assessments, teaching-learning process and curricula from lower-order thinking skills, such as remembering and understanding, toward higher-order skills, such as analyzing and solving engineering problems, as well as creativity, and interact more with employers to understand the particular demand for skills in that region and sector.
This report seeks to assist the Governments of Botswana, Lesotho, and Zambia to more effectively ... more This report seeks to assist the Governments of Botswana, Lesotho, and Zambia to more effectively develop job ready secondary education graduates, who are better placed to increase their earnings and stay out of poverty. The report provides specific and practical suggestions for teachers, schools, and ministries to improve the job-readiness of secondary education graduates, and, in turn, is intended to facilitate a sharing of national and international experiences in the three participating countries. This report summarizes the main findings and recommendations for improving job-readiness in secondary education in Botswana, Lesotho, and Zambia. Overall, the report calls for a reform process of instruction, curriculum, assessment, and structure of secondary education national education movements led by teachers and principals to more effectively develop entrepreneurial graduates with critical thinking, problem-solving, team-working, and strong foundational skills. This should be suppo...
This brief summarizes a report that seeks to assist the Governments of Botswana, Lesotho, and Zam... more This brief summarizes a report that seeks to assist the Governments of Botswana, Lesotho, and Zambia to more effectively develop job ready secondary education graduates, who are better placed to increase their earnings and stay out of poverty. The brief provides recommendations specific to Lesotho.
Shortage of skills remains one of the major constraints to continued growth of the Indian economy... more Shortage of skills remains one of the major constraints to continued growth of the Indian economy. This employer survey seeks to address this knowledge-gap by answering three questions: Which skills do employers consider important when hiring new engineering graduates? How satisfied are the employers with the skills of engineering graduates? and In which important skills are the engineers falling short? The results confirm a widespread dissatisfaction with the current graduates. After classifying all skills by factor analysis, the authors conclude that employers perceive soft skills (core employability skills and communication skills) to be very important. The findings suggest that engineering education institutions should seek to improve the skill set of graduates, recognize the importance of soft skills, refocus the assessments, teaching-learning process and curricula from lower-order thinking skills, such as remembering and understanding, toward higher-order skills, such as analyzing and solving engineering problems, as well as creativity, and interact more with employers to understand the particular demand for skills in that region and sector.
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