What is TVET?

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is concerned with the acquisition of knowledge and skills for the world of work. Throughout the course of history, various terms have been used to describe elements of the field that are now conceived as comprising TVET. These include: Apprenticeship Training, Vocational Education, Technical Education, Technical-Vocational Education (TVE), Occupational Education (OE), Vocational Education and Training (VET), Professional and Vocational Education (PVE), Career and Technical Education (CTE), Workforce Education (WE), Workplace Education (WE), etc. Several of these terms are commonly used in specific geographic areas.

Background

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The following major UNESCO conferences (the "Seoul Congress" and "Seoul+5") were standard-setting with regards to TVET:

UNESCO International Experts Meeting Learning for Work, Citizenship and Sustainability, Bonn, October 2004

Second International Congress on Technical and Vocational Education (http://www.unesco.org/education/educprog/tve/nseoul/indexe.html), Seoul, South Korea, 1999

Links

Vocational Education and Training: A Come-Back to the Development Agenda?

International TVET Institutions

Documents

Revised Recommendation concerning Technical and Vocational Education (UNESCO, 2002)
English (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001260/126050e.pdf) | French (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001260/126050f.pdf) | Spanish (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001260/126050s.pdf) | Russian (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001260/126050r.pdf) | Arabic (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001260/126050ab.pdf) | Chinese (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001260/126050cb.pdf) (PDF, 250KB)

Convention on Technical and Vocational Education (UNESCO, 1989)
English (http://p19035.typo3server.info/fileadmin/user_upload/pubs/conv-e.pdf) | French (http://p19035.typo3server.info/fileadmin/user_upload/pubs/conv-f.pdf) | Spanish (http://p19035.typo3server.info/fileadmin/user_upload/pubs/conv-s.pdf) | Chinese (http://p19035.typo3server.info/fileadmin/user_upload/pubs/conv-c.pdf) | Arabic (http://p19035.typo3server.info/fileadmin/user_upload/pubs/conv-a.pdf) | Russian (http://p19035.typo3server.info/fileadmin/user_upload/pubs/conv-r.pdf) (PDF, 100KB)

"Vocational Education: The Come-back?" in Education Today (UNESCO's Education Sector newsletter), April-June 2005
English (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001394/139459e.pdf) | French (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001394/139459f.pdf) | Spanish (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001394/139459s.pdf) | Russian (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001394/139459r.pdf) | Arabic (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001394/139459a.pdf) (PDF, 400KB)

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