By Mesay Tilahun The Industry Advisory Board was established to strengthen the linkage between Dire Dawa Polytechnic College and the industry. Since its establishment, the Board has frequently met and discussed on various issues to improve the TVET programmes and to address the mismatch between TVET graduates and industries labour demand. The main agenda of […]
By Mesay Tilahun Gender and inclusive mainstreaming are some of the core cross cutting issues Dire Dawa Polytechnic College is implementing to minimize the gender gap. In this regard, the College Gender Unit in collaboration with the EASTRIP Social Safeguard and Gender Inclusive Specialist provided capacity building training on Gender-Based-Violence (GBV) for 59 the College’s […]
By Mesay Tilahun Dire Dawa Polytechnic College in partnership the African Railway Centre of Excellence at Addis Ababa University to build the capacity of teachers on railway technology. Dire Dawa Polytechnic College hosts the Regional Flagship TVET Institute in Railway Technology. This follows the signing of Memorandum of Understanding with Addis Ababa University- Institute of […]
By Mesay Tilahun One of the key successes with this institute – industry linkage was the achievement on teachers’ industrial attachment which is one of the intermediate results of the project. Regarding this for the project life time (5 years) a total of 22 staff were planned to attach with industries. Based on the MoU […]
By Mesay Tilahun A grievance redress mechanism (GRM) committee has been established at Dire Dawa Polytechnic college. The committee includes all project beneficiary stakeholder’s including Local Administration that will be represent government, Community representative, Dire Dawa Administration Environment authority representatives, Academic staff representative, Students representative and Gender focal person). The objective of this committees is […]
By Mesay Tilahun Dire Dawa Polytechnic College, through the EASTRIP Project, has been working with industries and partner institutes to institutionalize the institute-industry linkages. It is based on the belief that institutionalizing industrial linkages needs a strong partnership that is based on mutual benefits among industries and TVET institutes. Accordingly Dire Dawa Polytechnic College provided […]
By Mesay Tilahun Dire Dawa Polytechnic College is strengthening its industrial linkage through providing training for industries’ technicians, identifying & solving industries’ problems and conducting a continuous consultative meeting with the industries. With this regard, the College’s Manufacturing Technology department teachers; Yohanis Teka and Yonas Toum have produced a machine spare part with minimum cost […]
By Mesay Tilahun Dire Dawa Polytechnic College tutors undertook the second-round industrial attachment for work place practical training in Dire Dawa Industrial Park at Andrea Shoes Manufacturing PLC. During the attachment the teachers were not only gathering new knowledge and skills but also providing training for those newly employed industry’s workers. This mutual benefit between […]
By Mesay Tilahun The Dire Dawa Polytechnic College Vice Dean, and department heads for Electric, Manufacturing and Automotive Technology as well as East Africa Skills for Transformation and Regional Integration Project (EASTRIP) Implementation Unit industrial liaison specialist visited the Ayaan Food and Mineral Water Factory. The objective of the visit was to strengthen the College-Industrial […]
By Mesay Tilahun Dereje Taye, a PhD Candidate and a tutor in Electro Technology Department at Dire Dawa Polytechnic College has produced the Best Automatic Hand Washing Machine to aid in the prevention of COVD 19 pandemic. The machine was made with simple to assemble parts which has made it easy to use among many […]
