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Vocational training and employment opportunities: a case of Mtwara region
(Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2010) Ngulyamali,Mohamed Bakari
The study was conducted in Mtwara district. Mtwara Region to examine the current status and future utility of vocational training in PPTCs and graduate's access into the labour market. A cross-sectional study was applied. A sample of 120 respondents was interviewed. questionnaires, were used for collecting data. Data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). Descriptive analysis employed the use of frequencies and percentage. The study revealed that, majority of vocational graduates has secured employment in informal economy through self-employment in carpentry, tailoring and bricklaying. The study also found that only 13% accounted for female graduates in vocational skills. Less number of women joins vocational training in rural areas. Besides vocational training in Post Primary Technical Centers are faced with lack of skilled vocational instructors, working tools and materials and insufficient food provision. It was concluded that vocational training had contributed highly in enabling vocational graduates in securing self-employment in Mtwara. The study recommends that, stakeholders of vocational training to mobilize training inputs including, physical, financial, and human resource to improve trainees' quality learning and performance, mobilize females to join vocational training and provide working tools to graduates as initial capital as well as establish association of service providers and SACCOS as a means for accessing to microfinancing institutions.