Bhutan
Project Goal
To support a reformed technical and vocational education training (TVET) system in Bhutan to equip graduates with the knowledge and skills that meet labour market needs and contribute to the country’s socio-economic development.
Project Backgrounder
The Bhutan Education and Skills Training (BEST) project is a five-year $5 million project funded by the Government of Canada through Global Affairs Canada (GAC) focused on supporting the comprehensive reform of the technical and vocational education training (TVET) system in Bhutan through interventions at the national, institutional and community levels. Humber College leads the project in partnership with Bhutan's Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MOESD), and RENEW (Respect, Education, Nurture and Empower Women), a non-profit organization in Bhutan.
The BEST project will increase the enrolment of Bhutanese youth in TVET programs, strengthen the competencies of work-ready TVET institution graduates and amplify economic and entrepreneurship opportunities for TVET graduates in Bhutan. The project will embed crosscutting themes of gender equality, environmental sustainability, accessibility (for people with disabilities) and Gross National Happiness to equip graduates with the skills and knowledge that meet labour-market needs and contribute to the country's socio-economic advancement.
Indonesia
Project Goal
To improve the curriculum and teaching methods in entrepreneurship of seven Indonesian universities for students to develop creative business skills in the classroom, while also providing on-campus hubs for students to explore entrepreneurship on their own.
Project Backgrounder
Sulawesi Economic Development Strategy (SEDS) was a four-year (2012-2018) initiative which improved the capacity of seven Sulawesi universities (teaching staff and administrators) to design and deliver applied entrepreneurship curriculum at the degree and postgraduate certificate levels. SEDS equipped female and male graduates with the entrepreneurial skills necessary to start their own small businesses. It also helped to improve the capacity of these seven universities to design and deliver business support services (business training, counselling, and consulting and incubation service) that promote gender equality and environmental sustainability to Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). Through a train-the-trainer (TTT) approach, the project developed each university’s capacity to develop, improve and deliver applied entrepreneurship curriculum.
Major Achievements
- 7,000+ students have studied the new entrepreneurship curriculum
- 56% of students enrolled in new entrepreneurship courses were women
- 18% of students who studied the new curriculum started a new business (1,260 businesses started)
- 50% of the new businesses have created at least 1 job
- The average monthly revenue of a student start-up was about $300
- 94% of students that took the course can name a business best practice on the topic of gender, governance and the environment
- 83% of students were satisfied with the new entrepreneurship courses
- 100+ Indonesian lecturers (approximately 50% female) completed three workshops on “Design and Delivery of Applied Entrepreneurship Curriculum” facilitated by Canadian and Indonesian experts
