Belgian programme donates scholastic materials to 10 TVET schools

BCP staff displaying the TVET text books

The Belgian Common TVET Support Programme (BCP) has donated scholastic materials including text books and office machines worth €30, 000.

This donation is meant for 10 pilot schools located in the southern province during the implementation of various lesson plans developed by WDA in collaboration with the Belgian Common TVET Support Programme.

The event coincided with the launch of IPRC-South where Katrien Meersman, representing the Belgian Embassy said that their support to human capacity development is towards making a qualified employable population that finds solutions to local and national challenges.

Some of the subjects are already being experimented in TVET schools located in the southern province which include; Mpanda VTC, Rwabuye VTC, Nyanza VTC, Kavumu VTC, Ikirezi TSS (Ruhango) and Nyanza TSS.

According to Gideon Rudahunga the Director of intervention with the BCP, this is the first phase of the donation. The other part will involve building capacity of more trainers on how to align their teaching with the developed curricula and the RTQF and putting up workshops that match with areas of training.

With support from BCP, seventeen experimental competency-based curricula have already been aligned with the Rwanda TVET Qualification Framework (RTQF).

The Head of Curriculum Development Unit (WDA) Jean Marie Vianney  Muhire says that these certificates are on level 3, leading to the award of  TVET certificate 1. He further said that the unit is working on 8 curricula on level 4 for certificate 2.

Rwanda TVET Qualification Framework is being aligned with curricula to improve transparency in qualifications, skills development, the quality of education and training, career guidance, regional and international mobility of the workforce.