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The project supports the Government's efforts to improve the quality and increase the quantity of trained technicians for the industrial sector, to meet urgent needs for well-trained technical and vocational teachers and to increase the supply of trained hotel, catering and other service personnel for the tourism sector. The project aims to assist the Council of Higher Education in developing: (i) a national system of higher-level technician training; and (ii) a system of high-quality technical and vocational teacher education in four Faculties of Technical and Vocational Education (FTVEs). In addition, the project supports the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT) in developing a national training system for hotel, catering and tourism occupations. Specifically, the project supports the conversion of 20 outmoded, ill-equipped and inappropriately staffed Vocational Schools of Higher Education (VSHEs) into proper Technician Training Centers (TCCs). It also supports the expansion and upgrading of existing instructor training programs at the FTVEs to meet a projected shortfall of over 13,400 technical and vocational teachers by 1991, as well as the upgrading and expansion of 10 tourism training centers (TUREMs).