Establishing Quality in Technical and Vocational Education in Burundi: Contribution of the National Education Forum, Edition 2022 and in Employability in Burundi

Abstract

Burundi, a party to the UN engaged to the development of youth education targeting to diminish the situation of youth unemployment and under-employability. It has on June 14-16, 2022 organized a national education forum to search for means to face youth issue in the field education especially technical and vocational education. This article aims to analyze solutions held over the forum towards youth employability through technical and vocational education and training. The documentary method was used throughout this article in data collection while a deduction technique helped during their analysis. Results showed that through that gate, youth employability increase is possible but requires involvement of all sub-sector actors and stakeholders in the design of training programs, participation of professionals throughout the curriculum and program development process, diagnostic eye on the current curriculum with a view to improving it, employers’ association call up in job referential establishment which has a better grasp of the job market, programs revision in line with the real needs of the job market, and the connection between schools and universities and the professional environment to define together the training offer and the output profile.