Wednesday, 3 December 2025 Productivity and Vocational Training Department and ETQAAN Signed a Cooperation Protocol to Enhance the Capacities of All Technical Education and Vocational Training Cadres.
Wednesday, 3 December 2025
Productivity and Vocational Training Department and ETQAAN Signed a Cooperation Protocol to Enhance the Capacities of All Technical Education and Vocational Training Cadres.
Signing of a Cooperation Protocol to Enhance the Capacities of Technical Education and Vocational Training Cadres
he Productivity and Vocational Training Department (PVTD) at the Ministry of Industry and the Egyptian TVET for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Authority (ETQAAN) signed a Cooperation Protocol aimed at enhancing the capacities of all technical education and vocational training staff at the Authority in the field of quality assurance.
In the context of strengthening institutional cooperation, entrenching the culture of quality on ground, and Egypt’s commitment to unify efforts to serve the technical education and vocational training sectors, Major General Eng. Ihab Abdallah Ramadan, Chairman of the Productivity and Vocational Training Department at the Ministry of Industry, and Prof. Dr. Mohamed Moussa Emara, Chairman of ETQAAN, signed the Cooperation Protocol on the sidelines of a workshop entitled “The European Quality Assurance Framework for Vocational Education and Training (EQAVET) and Indicators for Measuring the Quality of the Technical, Technological, and Vocational Education and Training System in Egypt”. The workshop was organized by ETQAAN in cooperation with the European Training Foundation (ETF).
This protocol serves as a cornerstone for integrated cooperation, bringing together PVTD — which serves Egyptian industry by preparing skilled technical workers and supplying the labor market with qualified, industry-ready human resources, moreover; training employees at various managerial levels within industrial companies, and providing consultations and studies to address industrial operational challenges—and ETQAAN, which is mandated to establish and apply the quality assurance and accreditation system for institutions and programs of technical, technological education, and vocational training, with no conflict of interest.
The protocol aims to enhance the capacities of all technical education and vocational training staff at PVTD in the fields of quality assurance and accreditation as part of their pedagogical and technical professional development. It also seeks to provide technical support to the Quality Management Unit and to coordinate with national and international bodies, projects, and programs to strengthen the quality system at PVTD.
This cooperation will accelerate the dissemination of the culture of quality, enhance human capital efficiency and capacity, which will positively impact the quality of educational and training services, thereby supplying the labor market with highly qualified and well-trained technical personnel in accordance with the highest standards.
The workshop and the signing of the Cooperation Protocol were attended by representatives of all relevant stakeholders in Egypt, including the Ministries of : Higher Education and Scientific Research, Finance, Planning and Economic Development and International Cooperation {sectoral skills councils}, Education and Technical Education, Industry, Defence, Interior, Military Production, Social Solidarity, Health and Population, Electricity and Renewable Energy, Housing, Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Water Resources and Irrigation, and Petroleum and Mineral Resources.
Participants also included representatives of: the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), presidents of technological universities, Wardan Institute for Transport Technology, national committees of the Supreme Council for Technological Education, the National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education (NAQAAE), the Education Development Fund (Prime Minister’s Office), the Technical Committee for Quality Management System Standards for Educational Institutions at the Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality (Ministry of Industry), the Federation of Egyptian Industries, the General Authority for Educational Buildings, labor market representatives from various economic sectors, quality assurance experts, ETQAAN consultants, civil society organizations concerned with TVET, Al-Sewedy Academy, as well as international projects including TCTI (funded by GIZ) and SSEY (funded by the European Union).