Integrating Green Skills into VET Curricula

Abstract

The main objective of this study was to identify green skills which need to be
integrated into Vocational Education and Training (VET) curricula and to explain the
understanding/ perceptions of A-Level Trainers/ lecturers about the same. I did this
due to the fact that neither VET strategy and policy nor VET curricula/ modules give
emphasis on the need for green skills. To this end, I administered a self-constructed
valid questionnaire to 141 A-Level trainers from 5 of 6 PTCs in Addis Ababa. The
result disclosed that132 respondents understood 25 of 25 green skills (where mean
scores range from 0.61 to 1.21 of 2.00 in the continuum of the 5-point rating scale).
Moreover, these respondents better understood 6 of 25 green skills (where mean
scores range from 1.00 to1.21 of 2.00). Based on this, I concluded that 132 A-Level
trainers averagely understood 25 green skills (4=agree=1 point in the continuum of the
5-ponit rating scale) and averagely agreed (4=agree=1 point in the continuum of the 5
ponit rating scale) regarding the integration of these green skills into VET curricula.