Master in Technical and Vocational Education and Training

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) has long been viewed as a powerful tool for both national and individual development. This program was introduced in August 2018 by KUSOED, in recognition of the industry's rapid growth and the growing demand for qualified human resources in the field on both national and international markets.

Master in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (MTVET) is two years, four semesters course. 

This program was designed to aid in the growth of a strong TVET industry and, as a result, a better quality of life. Addressing TVET's human resource development needs, preparing TVET system leaders, educators, and planners, attracting young people to TVET by linking it to socioeconomic processes, thus providing promising career prospects both nationally and internationally, and instilling the entrepreneurial mindset are just a few of the specific objectives.

Curriculum, labor market, human resources, work education, sociology of work and occupation, technical education assessment, entrepreneurship and company development, and work-based learning, which mixes real-world working and learning, are among the topics covered by students. In this master's degree, students can choose between two specialization areas: TVET Pedagogy and TVET System Management and Leadership.

Purpose of MTEVT program:

• Address the human resource development needs of TVET
• Prepare TVET system leaders, educators, and planners
• Attract young ones to TVET by linking it with socio-economic processes thereby providing promising career prospects nationally and internationally
• Develop TVET focused research capacity
• Promote excellence, opportunity, and leadership in TVET

MTVET graduates develop the following specific knowledge and skills: 

• Be able to explore and interpret the interplay among social institutions and rules and resources, work and occupation, and TVET
• Be competent educators, innovators, leaders, and managers of TVET institutions/programs
• Be competent in preparing TVET activities such as preparation of competency-based curriculum, designing instructional events, delivering theoretical and practical sessions, evaluation of students.
• Be proficient in doing economics and financial analysis of work and occupations, and TVET.
• Be conversant with different theories, concepts, and ideas that have been developed and see TVET processes in terms of those theories and ideas
• Be capable of in engaging TVET process e.g. policy dialogue, networking
• Be skillful in designing, carrying out, managing, and evaluating research on TVET
• Be able to understand, design, implement, and monitor quality assurance process