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Given the alarming high unemployment rate of 27.4% as indicated by recent literature review coupled with a lack of sufficient manpower form just a few VTCs, plus the level of quality of skills - based training to ensure secured employability within the employment sector, has prompted the researcher to carefully and analytically interrogate the status quo of VTCs pertaining to their input on curricula and governance issues needed to engage stakeholders in curtailing the said unemployment rate.

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Berthold Kaune is a seasoned academic of 20 years of experience, lecturing Biology at the University of Namibia. An unemployment rate of 27.4% linked to a lack of skilled workforce has prompted a look into the type of curricula and governance offered at VTCs toward securing employability skills to a greater part of the populace.

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