Year
2014
Country
Qatar
Language
English
Abstract
| The purpose of this thesis is to explore the most pressing and critical challenges that affect the effectiveness of the VET sector in Qatar in the scope of national development strategies. What signifies this paper is the exploration of almost an absent field of study, which is rarely studied on a national or even regional level. The environmental forces and factors affecting the current educational policy, therefore, have been explored to highlight specific policy-implementation gabs as well as other procedural errors. Furthermore, in light of the current statistics and data, this paper specifies the necessities of founding a supervisory organization or establishment and shows the consequences of the lack of effective supervision and monitoring over VET institutions in Qatar. For instance, the few statistics about the huge number of training organizations show the misalignment of the private institutions objectives, activities, outcomes and achievements with the national development strategies. Furthermore, many official departments can be accused of being the key responsible of this misalignment as involved in permitting the training activities, but without having any further follow-ups and real institutional assessments. Notwithstanding, this thesis is composed of five chapters. The first chapter of this thesis presents the rationale of this paper with an overview of the research including the research's problem, significance, questions, methodology and literature review. The second chapter explores the overlapping historic and demographic contexts as well as the labor market status and the human capital vision in Qatar. The institutional and sectoral contexts are graphically visualized in this chapter to emphasize the macro and micro environmental forces and factors affecting VET accordingly. The third chapter presents some qualitative and comparative analysis for the western models of VET in order to highlight comparatively the similarities and differences of a variety of international models, with highlighting reasons of success or failure. This would, therefore, highlight the key issues noted to be global, resembling the existing ones in Qatar. The fourth chapter, thereby, interrogates the current domestic challenges and how it affects the effectiveness of VET sector in Qatar through categorizing the most urgent and pressing challenges into two macro and micro environmental categories. The final chapter is a manifestation of the findings of this paper with some recommendations. |
English
No. of Pages
109p.
Degree
M.A.
Select type of work
Institution
CIS Program Old
CIS publications
No
CIS Thesis
Yes
Status
Pending
CIS Library Call Number
Thesis QFIS PP 2014/3