Education and Human Resource Development in Post-Independent Eritrea - An Explanatory Note
International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Commutation Technology (IJEDICT), Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 67-81, 2006
13 Pages Posted: 27 Oct 2008 Last revised: 7 May 2015
Date Written: December 23, 2006
Abstract
Education is a lifelong process. Twentieth century has witnessed the miracles of Human Resource Development (HRD) activities reflected through increase in GNP and overall productive activities. The Government of Eritrea offering both formal and informal training programmes at different levels in order to develop the human resources. This prosperity in education is obviously a great thing for Eritrea, and the dream to make Eritrea a technological-oriented and advanced nation would become real, because the cumulative effort done so far in the human development is noteworthy. As Human Resource Development Programmes concentrate much on the category of major raw human resource to be processed into the work force and its role in reconstructing the economy. An attempt is made in this paper to analyse the educational and human resource development after independence. This paper also provides detailed account of technical and vocation education with special reference to skill development programme.
Keywords: Education, Human Resource, Development, Eritrea, Technical education
JEL Classification: A2, I2, I22, O15
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