The Importance of Strategic Management Resources for Successful Technical and Vocational Education and Training Governance in Lesotho.

This article discusses strategic management resources for implementing a successful Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) strategy in Lesotho. The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) and TVET institutions use strategic management to achieve their strategic goals, but strategic resources are scarce. This hinders the expected development of human capital. Due to skills mismatches, TVET graduates leave institutions with irrelevant skills, causing unemployment, poverty and social inequality. TVET institutions lack strategic resources to implement TVET strategies. Pragmatism and a mixed-methods approach guided data collection, data analysis, and interpretation of the results of this study. MOET staff were interviewed to determine strategic management resources. TVET staff completed a questionnaire to assess access to the strategic resources needed to implement the strategy successfully. This study found that Lesotho's government and MOET do not comprehend TVET's strategic resources and do not support TVET institutions adequately. The study recommends revising public sector policies, stakeholders' collaboration, improvement of the robustness of TVET funding, enhanced leadership, and TVET corporate governance to support the successful implementation of the public sector TVET strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]