An approach to the VTCs people in Southern Sudan as participants in curriculum development

Malakal Vocational Training Centre (MVTC) is like any other educational institution in Sudan receives a ready made curriculum, and this curriculum which, in most cases designed by people who don’t belong to their communities. My experience is that this curriculum seldom meets the needs of the local communities. If we take a look at the present curriculum it was designed by International Labour Organization (ILO). Since 1980s it has not been reviewed or updated to modern technology or to meet the demands of the local community and the industrial sector. This indicates that there is a need for a curriculum which can meet people’s demands.The MVTC administration and staff requested the government to design a curriculum according to the local needs, with a condition that the instructors have to be apart of the curriculum committee. I remember one instructor during a general meeting at the MVTC saying “if the government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) wants to design a new curriculum, we should have representatives from the VTC to reflect our ideas and demand of the local community to be included in the curriculum”. Many instructors supported the idea.