An Exploration of Funding Avenues in Technical, Vocational Education and Training That Promote Gender Equity of Students in Uganda
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2021-08
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Science Publishing Group
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The realisation of gender equity through education and training has captured global and national attention. Despite
the multiple strategies for achieving gender equity in Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET), studies have
revealed that funding challenges continue to hamper its realisation in TVET institutes. Thus, this study explored funding
avenues in TVET that promote gender equity of students in TVET institutes in Uganda. A descriptive survey design with
quantitative and qualitative approaches was used to collect, analyse and present study findings. 260 informants including
institutional leaders, instructors, students, district leaders, ministry officials, and civil society gender advocates participated in
this study. Purposive, convenient, and stratified random sampling techniques were used in selecting the study informants.
Questionnaire and interview guides were used to collect the desired data. The quantitative data was cleaned, coded, and entered
into Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 21 for analysis. Percentage, mean, and standard deviations
were used to present the quantitative data. Thematic method and verbatim reporting were used to analyse and present
qualitative data respectively. The results revealed that: privatisation of TVET access, increasing TVET budgets, timely and
adequate government grants, timely and adequate staff remunerations, bursaries and scholarships, public-private
partnerships, affirmative strategies, and boosting parents’ income, promote gender equity of students. The study recommended
that supportive loan schemes for TVET students be instated, capital grants per student need to be increased, with a slightly
higher amount for females to meet their sanitary needs, capital grants to TVET institutes should be dispatched before the start
of new terms/semesters, incorporation of the gender lens in the allocation of bursaries and scholarships, encouraging policy
formulation and memoranda of understanding between institutes and industries, building linkages with other institutions and
seeking donor funding from organisations.
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Aidah Trevelynn Nganda, Francis Kirimi, Salome Nyambura. An Exploration of Funding Avenues in Technical, Vocational Education and Training That Promote Gender Equity of Students in Uganda. International Journal of Vocational Education and Training Research. Vol. 7, No. 2, 2021, pp. 50-57. doi: 10.11648/j.ijvetr.20210702.12