Practising what you preach, preaching what you practice
World Bank support for technical and vocational education and training in sub-Saharan Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11920941 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Bennell (0000-0003-0096-3141, Knowledge and Skills for Development, Brighton, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1410-1428 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-25 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-7925 • E-ISSN: 1469-3623 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03057925.2022.2036594 |
| OpenAlex | W4214508790 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 21 |
This is the second of two articles on World Bank support for technical and vocational education and training in sub-Saharan Africa. The first article reviewed the World Bank's latest policy document on TVET in SSA. This article takes a broader historical perspective by examining the evolution of World Bank policy and practice in this key area of education provision during the last 30 years. The Bank took the lead during the early 1990s in actively promoting a comprehensive reform strategy for TVET in SSA which sought to reduce the role of the state in direct training provision and to make training systems more demand-driven. The serious implementation shortcomings of this strategy eventually led to the emergence of a new approach to skills development in SSA in the late 2000s which places considerably more emphasis on the centrality of skills development for national development
Centrality · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Public relations · State (computer science · Training (meteorology · Vocational education · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Social and Economic Development in India
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Hypocrisy Trap
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General versus vocational secondary education in developing countries
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The skills balancing act
The sociology of policy change within international organisations
Skills for productivity
The history and problems in the making of education policy at the World Bank 1960–2000
Vocational education and training in developing countries
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Engineering Skills and Development
| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |