Greening TVET for sustainable skill development : opportunities and challenges in Botswana with a focus on quality education

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Jerald, Hondonga
Tawanda, Chinengundu
Vijayaratnam, Phawani
Rajanthran, Subashini K.

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Creative Publishing House

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The need to reorganise economies and the skill sets that individuals will need in the new order is urgent since climate change is impacting the entire planet. TVET systems are required to reskill and provide human capital with environmentally sustainable skills for green economies and jobs. This article investigates potential additional benefits that greening TVET education may offer to students, the employment market, and Botswana as a whole. The study examined current research on Botswana's preparedness for a green TVET industry. Results highlight the crucial role of greening TVET systems in supporting nations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly in meeting their climate change commitments and ensuring quality education. Investments made concurrently in greening TVET, green industries, and green technology have the potential to prevent significant employment losses and to create a significant number of new jobs for recent graduates. The emphasis should be on occupational green skills and any support mechanisms that may establish a green TVET system to take advantage of the new prospects. Additional findings point to the need for strong labour market data and skills anticipation to pinpoint in-demand green talents and create fresh initiatives focused on the green economy. To lessen potential issues of fragmentation between TVET greening programmes, environmental legislation, and the green job market, countries must have professionals to perform quality assurance and monitoring of the novel synergies between the greening of TVET systems, learner skills, and the job market.

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Greening TVET, Skill sets, Sustainable skills, Green skills, Green jobs, Technical and vocational education and training (TVET)

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG-04:Quality Education
SDG-06:Clean water and sanitation
SDG-07:Affordable and clean energy
SDG-09: Industry, innovation and infrastructure
SDG-11:Sustainable cities and communities
SDG-12:Responsible consumption and production
SDG-13:Climate action
SDG-14:Life below water
SDG-15:Life on land

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Jerald, H., Tawanda, C., Vijayaratnam, P. et al. 2024, 'Greening TVET for sustainable skill development : opportunities and challenges in Botswana with a focus on quality education', Journal of Ecohumanism, vol. 3, no. 8, pp. 2979-2985. https://DOI.org/10.62754/joe.v3i8.4939.