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News Issue No. 1 Volume January 11 No. 2 - MarchApr 2017 - Jun 2013 TEVETA, RTSA Launch Instructor Driving Government to turn ZAMIM City Campus into Curriculum Business Incubator Centre for TEVET Graduates • Prisoners find hope in TEVET: The case of skills training at Mukobeko Maximum INSIDE •• 2017“The –2019Disease TEVETA is still here,Strategic let’s fightPlan on” • BEAR Project ends: A look at its milestones THISTEVETTEVET News Newsletter 2012 • From Kabwe Trades to Kabwe Institute of Technology: What does it entail? 1 1 ISSUE • Curriculum review: A component of the SSTEP project TEVET 1st Quarter Newsletter 2017 | 1 CONTENTS FORWORD Foreword 2 e welcome you to the 2017 fisrt Quarter TEVET TEVETA, RTSA Launch Instructor Driving 3 newsletter. 2017 started Curriculum W with valuable landmarks among 2017 –2019 TEVETA strategic 2017 –2019 TEVETA Strategic Plan: TEVET for 4 plan. The Strategic Plan is aligned Internationally competitive and transversally to the Republican President’s skilled persons message during the opening of the First Session of the 12th National Assembly that “my administration BEAR project ends: A look at its milestones 5 will create an atmosphere where sectors will work together simultaneously to resolve developmental Northern Technical College graduate wins challenges such as youth unemployment and high levels of poverty, by 7 innovation award harnessing the youthful population into a productive one. This entails the youth embracing innovation and entrepreneurship, advanced technologies and actively participating in the economy.” Curriculum review: A component of the SSTEP 7 project During the quarter, TEVETA and the Road, Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA) launched a driving curriculum for driving instructors. New School-to-Work Skills Clubs and Co-operative components were added to old driving curriculum to avert road accidents Enterprises: A pillar to infrastructure lifespan 8 that have characterised Zambian roads. New drivers would undergo longevity? rigorous training to ensure there was order on the roads and in essence, reduce road accidents. Components added to the old curriculum are Kaputa Skills Training Centre: Pioneering Skills defensive driving and skills award training curriculum for driving instructors. Development in the most Northerly Zambia . 9 Defensive driving seeks to improve driving skills in terms of i) being able to control speed, ii) preparedness to react to other drivers, iii) night driving principles and iv) driving alertness. TEVETA also embarked on an initiative Re-engineering TEVET: Work, Innovation and to introduce Work and Innovation Based Learning environments as a 10 Skills Competition Based Learning System common feature to various training systems or learning pathways making up the Zambian Technical Education, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Milk chilling with biogas: Green TVET skills Training (TEVET) system. One of the measures under this initiative is to improving livelihoods 11 simulate the industrial and/or commercial work experience within school and tertiary education learning environments through the creation and Building or ruining your career or job operation of “School-to-Work Skills clubs and Cooperative Enterprises”. 12 opportunities through social media The BEAR project came to an end during the quarter. The project focused TEVET NEWS A publication of the Technical, Education, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training Authority (TEVETA) on the construction and tourism Birdcage Walk, Longacres, P/B RW 16X, Lusaka, Zambia, Telephone: +260 211 253331-4, 253211 sectors which were seen as drivers of Fax: +260 211 251060, Email: [email protected] national development. BEAR sought to boost the contribution of TVET to EDITOR sustainable national development and to improve the TVET system’s Clive M. Siachiyako capacity for providing equitable access Information, Education & Communications Specialist to training to individuals while boosting the supply of relevant skills to industry. EDITORIAL COMMITTEE The project led to the commencement of the Secondary School Vocational Victor Zumani Dines Phiri Education and Training (VET) system Entrepreneurship Development Specialist Training Systems Development Specialist with 36 pilot learning institutions. Of the 36, 32 were schools and 4 Trades Priscah N. Chela Christopher Nyirenda Training Institutes. Inspector – Quality Assurance TEVET Fund Manager We hope that you enjoy reading this Kennedy Bowa PHOTOGRAPHY edition and we welcome contributions. Curriculum Development Manager Clive Mutame Siachiyako DISCLAIMER 2Views | TEVET expressed 1st Quarter Newsletter in the 2017 articles and stories in this newsletter are not necessarily those of TEVETA, its board members or management. TEVETA, RTSA Launch Instructor Driving Curriculum By TEVET Newswriter good judgment while driving. It further EVETA and the Road, Transport and focuses on how drivers could overcome Safety Agency (RTSA) have launched a negative psychological factors such as driving curriculum for instructors and unneeded stress, fatigue, emotional distress T and road rages that affect their driving. added new components to the old learner drivers’ curriculum to avert road accidents Crash prevention techniques integrated that have characterised Zambian roads. Most in defensive driving including recognising of the road accidents are caused by human potential hazards before it is too late and error such as excessive speed, misjudging avoiding them. It contains a lot of information clearance distance, failing to keep to the on crash prevention techniques that include: near side and cutting in/shortcuts. i) scanning the roadway and adapting to TEVETA Curriculum Development surroundings, ii) each driver knowing their New drivers would undergo rigorous Manager Kennedy Bowa vehicle’s stopping distance, iii) awareness of training to ensure order on the roads and reaction distance and environment hazards, in essence reduce road traffic accidents. and road safety. After the training, driving iv) vehicle emergencies, v) sharing the road Components added to the learner drivers’ instructors were expected to i) effectively principles such as passing and necessary curriculum are defensive driving, while skills train learner drivers on how to administer clear distance/right of way, and vi) speed award training curriculum was developed First Aid; and ii) to effectively develop adjustments and railroad crossings, among for driving instructors. Defensive driving defensive driving skills. others. is an important component in averting They are also expected to iii) effectively train dangers on the road by utilising safe driving Curricula would largely improve the levels of learners how to interpret traffic laws and practices such as i) ability to control speed, competency amongst drivers in Zambia, and safety regulations; iv) interpret the Traffic ii) preparedness to react to other drivers’ protect life, property and save money from Act and regulations in relation to driving ways of driving, iii) applying night driving costs related to road traffic accidents (since school operations; v) instruct learner drivers principles iv) driving alertness. losses from traffic crashes have both social to identify major motor vehicle components and personal impacts) as individuals driving The skills award programme for driving and systems; vi) instruct learner drivers motor vehicles would be equipped with instructors comes at the backdrop of them on motor vehicle operation and handling skills and knowledge to drive safely, thereby not having been trained using a standardised techniques; vii) apply appropriate teaching reducing road traffic accidents. national curriculum. “There have been too methodologies; viii) adhere to business many shortcuts in driving schools. Drivers ethics and; ix) practice entrepreneurial skills Rationale for the new curriculum passing through such a shortcut-laden to identify business opportunities around Zambia is facing a challenge of high road system then get onto the roads with bad transport sector. traffic crashes that kill hundreds of people driving practices that cost lives,” stated What defensive driving entails annually and injuring thousands. The RTSA TEVETA Curriculum Development Manager 2015 Annual Report rated road crashes as Kennedy Bowa. It entails the manner that employs safe driving the third main cause of deaths after HIV/ strategies to help motorists identify hazards The curriculum for driving instructors AIDS and malaria. According to the Zambia predictably. The safe driving strategies go comprises i) theory on handing adult Road Safety Trust report of 2015, there well beyond instruction on basic traffic laws learners; ii) methodology of teaching were 32,392 road crashes in 2014 with and procedures. It integrates consistent driving; iii) assessments of competences 1,858 fatalities. Most of these crashes were improvement of the art of driving to reduce and skills acquired by learner drivers; and iv) attributed to drivers’ errors, which in many driving risks, anticipate situations and documentation of the skills acquired in the cases arise from bad attitude, lack of proper making safe and well-informed decisions. process of learning. training, impatience, misjudgments and Such decisions are implemented based on many other inappropriate actions. Mr. Bowa explained that the curriculum was road and environmental conditions present designed to equip trainees with knowledge, when completing a safe driving maneuver. Currently, there is lack of approved