Technical and Vocational Education and Training Bill, 2024

Parliament has passed the Bill. The third reading is the final chance for the Members of Parliament to debate its contents. Here, the debate is usually short and limited to what is actually in the Bill rather than, as at the second reading, what might have been included.

The Committee on Education and Sports reviewed the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Bill, 2024, and supports its goal of strengthening regulation, coordination, and quality assurance in Uganda’s skills sector. It recommends amendments to improve governance structures, clarify accreditation processes, protect staff during transitions, and align institutional mandates before Parliament passes the Bill.

The object of this Bill is to provide for the institutional framework for the coordination, regulation and promotion of TVET; to provide for the establishment of TVET Council and Sector Skills Expert Committee; to provide for establishment and regulation of TVET providers; to provide for management and governance structures of TVET providers; to provide for registration and licensing of TVET trainers; to provide for development of a TVET Qualification Framework; to provide for development of TVET cumulate; to provide for establishment of TVET Assessment Boards; to consolidate laws regulating TVET providers under this Act by repealing the Business Technical Vocational Education and Training Act, Cap. 244; the Management Training and Advisory Centre Act, Cap. 253: the Hotel and Tourism Training Institute Act, Cap. 249; Uganda Wildlife Research and Training Institute Act, Cap. 261; and for related matters.