Technical and Vocational Education and Training

is education and training which provides knowledge and skills for employment.TVET uses formal, non-formal and informal learning.TVET is recognised to be a crucial vehicle for social equity, inclusion and sustainable development.

The term ‘Technical and Vocational Education and Training’ or TVET was officiated at the World Congress on TVET in 1999 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. The congress recognised the term TVET to be broad enough to incorporate other terms that had been used to describe similar educational and training activities including Workforce Education (WE), and Technical-Vocational Education (TVE). The term TVET parallels other types of education and training e.g Vocational Education but is also used as an umbrella term to encompass education and training activities.

The decision in 1999 to officiate the term TVET led to the development of the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Bonn, Germany.