Technical and Vocational Education and Training – a promising path to empowerment and poverty alleviation
Most people associated with development issues are aware that roughly 1 billion people across the world live on less than US$1 a day. What is perhaps less well known is that there are also about 1 billion people who are illiterate. Undoubtedly, large parts of both groups are made up of the same people. And girls and women form a majority of those who are unable to read and write. In 1990 the international education community met in Jomtien,…