Reliving Technical and Vocational Education and Training to Juxtapose Industrial Engineering and Operation Management for National Development: The Case of Africa

Abstract

: Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is the icon of the new dispensation and pivotal to sustainable socio-economic development. Governments around the world are increasingly expositioning the philosophy of “heritage based education” as the anchor of sustainable innovation and skills development for community based industrialization and economic development. The ways of knowing are particularly important in the era of globalisation, a time in which indigenous knowledge as intellectual property is taking new significance in the search for answers to many of the world’s most vexing challenges such as: disease, famine, ethnic conflict