Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Vocational and Technical Evaluate Board (UVTAB) has embarked on a route of to streamline the evaluate and certification of vocational abilities amongst formative years trained below the Presidential Industrial Hubs across the nation.
This pass comes as portion of efforts to standardise the vocational practising panorama and make certain that formative years who salvage vibrant, palms-on practising thru these hubs are formally licensed and can advance thru the nationwide education framework.
In step with Onesmus Oyesigye, the Govt Secretary of UVTAB, a role force has been fashioned to align the practising and overview programs feeble on the hubs with the newly established TVET Act 2025.
“We’re going to learn and exchange the Evaluate and Training Programs (ATPs) equipped within the hubs to meet the fresh nationwide requirements,” stated Oyesigye. “The aim is to make it in all probability for every professional formative years, whether or no longer trained in formal institutions or thru the Presidential Hubs, salvage credible certification that allows them to progress academically or professionally.”
The Presidential Industrial Hubs are a brainchild of President Yoweri Museveni, established to present free community-essentially essentially based mostly practising in varied trades similar to hairdressing, carpentry, plumbing, tailoring, welding, and more. These hubs in particular target other folks which contain no longer had entry to formal education, offering a 2d likelihood at empowerment thru abilities pattern.
Eng. Raymond Kamugisha, Director of Presidential Initiatives and Industrial Hubs, welcomed the pass, announcing this can formalise abilities that had been previously assessed informally or thru the now-defunct Directorate of Industrial Training (DIT).
“The hubs had been created to present young Ugandans with vibrant abilities that at once purple meat up their livelihoods,” Kamugisha explained. “By UVTAB certification, these formative years can now entry opportunities in both the job market and the educational sector, together with the doable for pursuing diplomas, degrees, and even PhDs.”
Oyesigye noteworthy that UVTAB officers will talk over with the hubs to assist sessions fascinated with reviewing how practising and assessments were conducted, to present enhanced purple meat up transferring forward. Where basically the most important, they moreover view to carry out fresh Evaluate and Training Programs (ATPs) tailor-made to the trades equipped.
Kamugisha added that a key focal point of the initiative is the development of place-declare ATPs, tailor-made to the commercial and livelihood realities of every place. As an illustration, a vocational practising equipment for farming communities in Acholi will differ enormously from that designed for urban settings in central Uganda.
“We want to make certain practising will not be any longer factual generic,” stated Kamugisha. “It must be vibrant and aligned with what of us need in their local environments.”
Accessible files displays that so far, the Presidential Industrial Hubs contain trained 16,169 formative years, together with over 6,000 within the Kampala Metropolitan Attach. Right this moment, there are 19 hubs across Ugandaand 9 skilling centres in Kampala, all operating in collaboration with local leaders to title and put together beneficiaries.
Graduates salvage certificates upon completion, along with delivery-up capital to assist them place minute-scale corporations, in particular within the cottage enterprise sector. The upcoming intake, scheduled to delivery out in two weeks.
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