Thursday, May 20, 2010

BUILDING NETWORKS - vocational education

On the 19th, of May 2010 :fk coordinators (Ingrid and Tom) and participants (Mark and Daniel) from Rjukan vgs visited Akershus University College, Norway. They held a meeting with (Johan Houge–Thiis, Dr. Liv Mjelde, Roger Bakken and others) coordinators of NOMA Masters program in Vocational Pedagogy project at Akerhus University College.
Since NOMA is project which sponsor students from Kyambogo University in Uganda to pursue a Masters degree in Vocational Pedagogy in Akerhus University College, Norway and :fk partnership between Telemark County Norway and Ministry of Education Uganda exchange Teachers from Vocational / Technical and Academic schools in Uganda, members who attended this meeting stressed the need for the two projects to form a cooperation in order to join efforts and work together to improve Vocational Education in Uganda.
Laila Larsen (HiAk), Roger Bakken (HiAk), Fatin Osman H. Ahmed (Upper Nile University), Liv Mjelde (Kyambogo Un Ug/HiAk). Daniel Kasozi and Mark Kajubi, Friendship Telemark Uganda
In order to cement this cooperation, :fk coordinators from Rjukan vgs promised to visit Kyambogo )University, Uganda in June and have a meeting with teachers and former students of Masters in Vocational Pedagogy (MVP) at the University.

The two teams also agreed to organize seminars about Vocational Pedagogy both in Norway and Uganda to emphasis the need for a field of knowledge oriented towards trades, occupations and professions in both countries.
They stressed the need of holding workshops and giving short courses to grass root Vocational Teachers in order to speed up the dissemination of Vocational Pedagogy in Uganda.
We’re optimistic that this cooperation shall bring a fundamental changes in Vocational Education in both Norway and Uganda.

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