Lessons and Implications drawn from “Appraisal Study: Technological Diffusion, Human Capital and the Market for Skilled workers and High Level Education in Ethiopia"

Abstract

This paper presents the research methodology employed in an Appraisal Study on TVET, carried out by two Italian experts in the framework of the support of the Italian Development Cooperation to the Education Sector Development Program (ESDP). The study explored the needs for the appropriate balance of skills and qualifications required at the time. Focus was made at the created imbalance in skill hierarchy and the skills demanded in the market and tuning it to educational developments at Junior Technical Colleges (JTCs) levels. They designed and applied various instruments, as skilled manpower demand survey, complementing available data in the country. They also carried out economic analysis, examining the trends and the structural change in the labor market. The empirical result obtained by the survey is strongly supportive of the JTCs Project, initiated by MOE at the time. The study identified human and physical resources required for setting up the JTC programs.