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Wallenborn, Manfred – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
Vocational education and training (VET) can contribute to the attainment of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. A key to economic and social progress is the training of better-qualified individuals and skilled enterprise staff who will be more productive, improving goods, increasing incomes and adapting to changing markets. Experts…
Descriptors: Poverty, Rural Economics, International Cooperation, Vocational Education
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Amutabi, M. N.; Oketch, M. O. – International Journal of Educational Development, 2003
This article seeks to accomplish three objectives. The first is to interrogate the efficacy of the African Virtual University (AVU), which is a satellite and information technology (IT)-based distance education system, sponsored by the World Bank in Kenya. The second is to demonstrate the failures of the AVU and the reasons why this has been the…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Virtual Universities, Higher Education, Information Technology