By Peter Kaaya
Developing partnerships between Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutes and industry is an important deliverable of the EASTRIP Project. Arusha Technical College (ATC), through the EASTRIP Project, has developed partnerships with a number of industries. Through such partnerships ATC has managed to send a number of its staff for industrial attachment to enhance their practical skills training for its tutors and thus improve the quality of TVET programmes.

Students at ATC have already begun witnessing the fruits of the industrial attachments. Following the successful completion of their industrial attachment at Centre for Agricultural Mechanization and Rural Technology (CAMARTEC) in Arusha Tanzania, the tutors put to use the skills gained by taking students through a practical skills training on how to build a biodigester.

The Arusha Technical College Staff, Staff from CARMATEC and students building a Bio-Digester at Kikuletwa Campus.

“We fully attended practical training in one of the CARMATEC sites and we have managed to impact knowledge attained from the industry to our students and after this biodigester we will start to prepare a wind site” One of the ATC staff elaborated.

The Writer is a Communication Officer for the EASTRIP Project at Arusha Technical College