25/10/2025
The NUST TVET Conference, Windhoek, Namibia
The Coming NUST TVET Department RCIE: Its Potential Meaning in the Global South and World
Professor Dr. John Huston Stanfield
GFA/GIZ Senior International Consultant
Director, ASARPI
asarpi.org
Online Presentation
Good afternoon, two hours ahead of you, my colleagues in Namibia, greeting all of you from idyllic Mauritius. As graciously said, my name is John Stanfield, the founding Director of ASARPI: The Advanced Study for African Renaissance Ideas, asarpi.org. ASARPI is a non-aligned, hybrid, mostly virtual, Pan-African, and growing Pan-Asian policy advocacy think tank, headquartered in Mauritius with branches in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa, and soon to be in The Gambia, China, India, and Vietnam. We do most of our work through hybrid and mostly virtual Study-Practice Groups, which bring together multiple, deeply networked stakeholders from public, private, and grassroots communities sectors, to break out of their silos as they address a particular pressing public policy problem. Coming out of my decades of concern about the complexities of vocational education, in relation to other areas of higher education, for the past year, we have been engaged in the effort to incubate a research centre in Africa focused on what has commonly been called TVET. It is through this effort, I have had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Kloppers, NUST administrators, and numerous Namibia-based TVET leaders, as well as in the five other African countries engaged in our Study-Practice Group such as in my own adopted homeland Mauritius, such as Dr. Arvind, who I understand, did a smashing Conference keynote on the critical matter of inclusion in Tvet policies and outcome practices. We are a movement, an identity, as well as an organized think tank. Our core values include transparency, honesty, the pursuit of truth, ingenuity and spirituality.
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The Coming NUST TVET Department RCIE: Its Potential Meaning in the Global South and World Professor Dr. John Huston Stanfield GFA/GIZ Senior International Consultant Director, ASARPI asarpi.org Online Presentation Good afternoon, two hours ahead of you, my colleagues in Namibia, greeting all of you....