The center was established in 1973. Many students graduated from the center since then until the war broke up in 1982. The center was closed due to the war in Southern Sudan until recently when JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) supported the center to start. The center started offering short courses of 3 to 6 months with six trades running i.e. carpentry, plumbing, auto-mechanic, electricity, building and welding. Since last year then the center has change the program from three or six months to one year with added trades that happen to be secretariat, general mechanic and refrigerator and air conditioning. The center recruit all the students from Southern Sudan States and the police for acceptance is pass of Sudan school certificate. JICA is still supporting the one year program while the government is paying the instructors.
The center still lack qualify instructor to teach due to few qualifying instructors in different fields of vocational education. There are no vocational institutes in Southern Sudan for instructors to up-grade their vocational skills. However, few are only send to neighboring countries such as Uganda and Kenya for training of three to six months, which is not enough.
Reflections
In reality, Southern Sudan as a whole is lacking vocational institutes for training instructors in different vocational fields. The curriculum used is not so relevant with the needs of the community. Actually it becomes difficult for most instructors to cope up with new methods of teaching. We need to make a paradigm shift in the way we teach i.e. teachers centered to students centered. Dialogue should be the key of our teaching methodology. Cooperation with students, trusting him/her is one way we can part knowledge.
By Paul Tartisio Kneyi
Together we build a better nation (Stay awake with me).
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To me you're reflection is expressing and importen change. What makes this need so visible to you?
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