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The Applied Future Polytechnic
College in the Gaza Strip has completed two Work Based Learning initiatives and
celebrated the graduation of 30 students in air conditioning and hairdressing
in a high profile event attended by both Jehad Draidi and Said El-Haq, the
director generals responsible for TVET and Vocational Education at the Ministry
of Education and Higher Education in Palestine.
Under the Work-Based Learning
scheme funded by the Belgian Development Agency, the students were able to
combine college training with practical experience in the private sector for
air conditioning and hairdressing respectively. Moreover, through the WBL
programme, special funds as well as new tools and equipment could be provided
for the students to support them during their studies and prepare them for the
labor market.
Both the air conditioning and
hairdressing initiatives were highly successful, with several graduates already
owning their own businesses or working in the sector. Hairdressing, as the
newly added vocation in the college, was particularly successful, with already
5 graduates being employed in the private sector.
Suzan Al Helo, one of the
graduates and mother of 6 children, had a dream to be an active woman and help
her husband to improve their living conditions. “I was suffering from a difficult economic situation.
After I had children I decided to go to this college. Now I am working in my
own hairdressing salon in my home.”
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