Industries and Vocational Training Centres Partnership: Issues and Improvement Plan

Abstract

Several challenges have been found to develop and sustain collaboration between industries and vocational institutions, including funds, misunderstanding of objectives, policy limitation, and bureaucracy. This paper systematically reviewed five journals regarding the issues in collaboration between industries and vocational institutions, then identified a possible solution to improve that collaboration. A meta-analysis reviewed conducted on five related journals and research papers concerning cooperative relations vocational institutions with industries published within five years of this paper being produced from Emerald, EBSCOhost, ProQuest, and Sage Publication database sources. This study also found that collaboration between industries and vocational training centers can be improved if the government provides a clear policy to enhance mutual understanding between both parties. This approach can be used as a reference for Vocational institutions to strengthen the quality of vocational graduates by turning them into job-ready workers.

Relevance of industry stakeholder partnership in the production of skilled electrical engineering trade graduates

“…The students' experiential learning from the industrial trainer opened their minds on new relevant knowledge as it relates to skills in EIMT. This corroborates similar findings reported that the industry role is crucial to channel information on the latest technology used by the industry through collaborative partnership arrangements to produce work ready graduates (Mustafa et al, 2022). Another important revelation made in the study was the updating of the teacher's knowledge whilst the industry employer was teaching.…”

“…Collaboration involving TVET training colleges and the business enterprise has become a necessity in the production of human capital that is needed to transform any given economy. In the era of the fourth industrial revolution, the latest skills and technology developments are needed to ensure the success of any TVET institution in the production of highly competent graduates that satisfies industrial requirements (Mustafa et al, 2022). Thus, such partnership between business and TVET institutions is a mechanism in developing and strengthening the vocational education system, especially in the production of work-ready graduates through empowerment in technical skills technology as well as increased employability (Mustafa et al, 2022).…”

“…In the era of the fourth industrial revolution, the latest skills and technology developments are needed to ensure the success of any TVET institution in the production of highly competent graduates that satisfies industrial requirements (Mustafa et al, 2022). Thus, such partnership between business and TVET institutions is a mechanism in developing and strengthening the vocational education system, especially in the production of work-ready graduates through empowerment in technical skills technology as well as increased employability (Mustafa et al, 2022). Different scholars have highlighted reasons why collaboration between TVET institutions and industry is important (Mandvivalla et al, 2015;Akooje, 2016;Okoye & Arimonu, 2016;Makgato & Moila, 2019;Makgato & Afeti, 2020;Vinayan et al, 2020;Msibi, 2021).…”

“…Besides, the necessity of industry involvement in the training has been reported in different studies globally. These include exposure to practical-based training (Winberg & Hollis-Turner, 2021), exposure to experiential learning by real-life experimentation and latest technology to produce work ready graduates as well as the latest technology to produce work ready graduates (Pherson-Geyser et al, 2020;Mustafa et al, 2022). Others include exposure to industrial transformation for knowledge enhancement as well as adapt to knowledge and update teaching materials (Adams, 2019) and for practical skills acquisition that are aligned to labour market demand (Nathaniel et al, 2019).…”

“…Critical to the advocacy of CBPAR is the identification and handling of challenges affecting its community members. As reported by Mustafa et al (2022), some issues have been identified in the collaboration between TVET institutions and industries namely, lack of technology and facilities as well as expertise among others. These discoveries were only visible because on the instituted partnerships; hence, tackling these challenges will not be difficult because of the existence of mutual agreement governing such collaborations.…”