Education, Training and Skill Development Policies in Sudan: Macro–Micro Overview

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AbstractThis chapter uses some secondary data and the macro and firm surveys (2010) to analyse the educational, training and skill development policies in Sudan. We show that skill development depends on: reforming the educational system; enhancing the provision of training; planning skill needs and matching educational output with market needs; enhancing the transfer of knowledge/schooling effect; and incentives and collaboration between public and private institutions. We explain that the promotion of local technologies and adoption of appropriate foreign technologies and the interaction between both these to foster economic growth in Sudan depends on skill development. Our results show the low commitment to the standardised international adequacy, equity and efficiency criterion related to the supply and demand sides of educational and training policies. Moreover, we interpret the regional disparity in the demand and enrolment in education due to demographic reason, economic reasons and other reasons across the main regions in Sudan. Notably, our results imply that the incidence of high poverty rate seem to be the most important factor determining or limiting the demand and enrolment, notably, in basic education. We confirm our hypothesis 8 that the effective institutional environment and consistent policies of public and private institutions will enhance upskilling plan and skill development.KeywordsMacro MicroTraining PolicyEffective Institutional EnvironmentFirm SurveyUpgrade Skill LevelsThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.