Brite Vocational Training Center (BVTC)
The Government of Cameroon has prioritized skills development and training through Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) as an enabler to achieving vision 2035, as a catalyst for industrialization and a key strategy to addressing youth employment. Skills development draws from Vision 2035’s social pillar on education and training which emphasizes enhanced equity and wealth creation opportunities for the poor. The TVET sector is however faced with several challenges including poor perception, inadequate infrastructure, outdated training equipment, inappropriate curriculum that is not aligned to industry needs, inadequate number of qualified trainers and low enrollment. To reverse this trend, Government of Cameroon initiated reforms in TVET through the creation of the Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training, with a view to improving quality and relevance of training and employability of youth.
The Brite platform has been designed to prepare the Cameroon and Africa workforce with the skills needed to future proof their careers against the expected displacement of millions of jobs and skills instability because of technological change. It is also designed to provide businesses and economies with the skilled labour needed to fulfil the millions of new roles that will be created by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, shifts in the global economy and industrial transitions towards sustainability.
Brite is creating a public-private platform to give Cameroonian the skills they need in the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. “The scale and urgency of this transformation calls for nothing short of a reskilling revolution,”
Objectives of the Program
Brite seeks to close the conventional gap between education and career development through Brite Vocational Training Center (BVTC)The objective of BVTC is to improve employability and competitiveness of Cameroonian youth through quality and relevant Technical Education and Entrepreneurship Training. The specific objectives are.
- To increase inclusive access to technical education and training through expansion of infrastructure and training equipment, including to trainees with special needs.
- To improve the quality and relevance of technical education and training through a demand driven CBET curriculum, capacity building of TVET actors, partnership with industry and entrepreneurship;
- To facilitate evidence-based decision making in TVET through research.
- Development of skills relevant for the 21st job market for adults and young who are preparing to enter occupations in agriculture, business, homemaking, industrial and technical fields.
- To improve access, quality and relevance of technical education and entrepreneurship training for youth employment. The project targets trainees and trainers in Technical Training Institutes (TTIs), trainees living with disability, semi-skilled youth in Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), TVET quality assurance agencies and industry.
THE ROLE OF BRITE VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTER (BVTC) IN NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Brite Vocational Training Center will play a vital role in national development, especially in areas which include the following:
Employment/creation of job opportunities
BVTC aims at making individual to become an asset to themself and the nation and also prevent them from being a liability to the society.
Industrial Development
BVTC will helps a nation develop technologically and industrially by producing people competent and capable of developing and utilizing technologies for industrial and economic development thereby sustaining the manpower needs of any nation.
Entrepreneurship Strategy
BVTC will offer the beneficiary the ability to be self-reliant, to be job creators and employers of Labour.
Poverty Alleviation
Many who are fortunate to graduate in a regular school system and excel in various fields of leaning fall back to the skills acquired in technical and vocational institutions in time of employment crisis. That is why the BVTC program is designed to change that.
Promotion of the Cameroon Economy
To promotes the national economy through foreign exchange by exporting our products. The knowledge and skills gotten from the vocational center will helps in the conversion of local raw materials, this reduces the importation of foreign goods which lessen our import dependency and encourage exportation of our local products.
TRAINING, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CERTIFICATION
In order to address Cameroon’s human capital challenges and improve on the quality of education, Brite Academy has designed a series of vocational courses for professional development to serve as tools, delivered through a state-of-the-art model of education to train 21st century employees. These vocational courses for professional development also include international certification courses, for which Brite Academy offers preparatory training. Through a team of experts, the following courses are delivered:
S/N | SPECIALTY | DURATION | ENTRY LEVEL |
1
|
Office Automation Secretaryship |
9 months + 3 months internship |
GCE Advanced Level |
2 | Accounting And Management | 9 months + 3 months internship | GCE Advanced Level |
3 | Production of graphic Designs | 9 months + 3 months internship |
GCE Advanced Level |
4 |
Computer network maintenance |
9 months + 3 months internship |
GCE Advanced Level |
5 | Computer maintenance | 9 months + 3 months internship | GCE Advanced Level |
6 | Webmaster | 9 months + 3 months internship | GCE Advanced Level |
7 | Application development | 9 months + 3 months internship | GCE Advanced Level |
Note: Self-pace courses/ learning programs, also commonly associated with asynchronous learning are programs designed to suit all categories of persons. Self-pace here simply means you can study on your own, at your convenience and schedule and not at a time and scheduled imposed by another person. These types of programs are relevant to employees and employers who wish to develop professionally by acquiring more skills and knowledge either within or outside of their domain of specialty.
WHY STUDY AT BRITE
The right institution, combined with passion, dedication and hard work on the side of the student will go a long way produce desired learning outcome and Brite Academy is that institution. Below are some of the reasons why you should study at BAI
- Option to study both online and onsite
- Carefully selected professional trainers
- Ultra-modern training hall and facilities (furniture, whiteboard, projector, computers etc.)
- High speed internet supply to facilitate research
- Standby generator for electricity supply
- Reasonable discount on early registration
- Volunteer and internship opportunity post completion of studies
- Job placement with partner organization
- Free access to BAI organized webinars and master classes
- Discount on rent of BAI training hall or use of facility for personal event
OUR TRAINING FACILITIES
Conscious of the challenges some institutions face in effectively delivering lessons, conscious of the unstable power supply in our community, training facilities have been built and equipped in a manner that stands out from other training facilities;
- An ultra-modern well lighted training hall
- Equipped with computers and relevant software
- Standby generator
- Modern sets of furniture
- Projector for PowerPoint presentation
- Communication gadgets (Microphones and sound amplifier
