“We must transform how we train the next generation given that 80% must be their job and wealth creators.“
Annually, 10 million young people are ready to enter Africa’s labour market and yet the continent can only create 3 million jobs. Africa, with the world’s youngest population is currently having an underperforming labour market. As such, the widely proclaimed population dividend that the continent can benefit from may not happen unless the youth are skilled for the present and future development needs. Africa’s higher and tertiary agricultural education sector must play a significant role in skilling the next generation of workers and entrepreneurs. Doing so, requires that Africa’s education ecosystem is fit for purpose. Hence the need to transform the sector. RUFORUM is championing the transformation of Africa’s higher agricultural education sector in order to contribute to rebalancing Africa’s human resource pyramid, affected by under investment in the past. Agriculture and other sectors of the economy increasingly have more skilled graduate personnel with Bachelors and Masters degrees, and yet effective development delivery requires proportionately more technical professionals with
diplomas and certificates. This is a result of the transformation of Technical Vocational Education and Training into Universities. RUFORUM aims to support transformation of the education sector through its member Universities in their respective countries by strengthening the whole value chain of the human resource development. This way, a more balanced human resource pyramid needed to unlock development is created.
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