Adequate training infrastructure is also very important for high-quality training – and it is often very expensive. For training centres, catching up with technological trends and developments in the world of work is a real challenge that requires frequent investments in venues (classrooms, laboratories and workshops or other simulation facilities) and equipment.
Our partners in developing countries mostly find it impossible to build, equip, and maintain training facilities to the appropriate standard and in sufficient quantity to cover the continuously growing social and economic demand for VET. This makes training infrastructure another crucial bottleneck for any ambitious VET reform or donor intervention, in particular one which covers a large number of people.
In this context, work-based learning and other forms of cooperation with the world of work are possible ways out which it is worthwhile to explore.
