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Outline the demerits of the Manpower Requirement Approach in educational planning

      

Outline the demerits of the Manpower Requirement Approach in educational planning

  

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-It tends to confine itself to high level manpower and assumes the low level manpower/informal sector of the economy-the unskilled and the semi-skilled labour force which is also vital for the wellbeing of the economy/they jumpstart the economy.
-It is sometimes impossible to make accurate focused manpower requirements in 20-30 years to come because of many technological demographic social and political changes which affect the quality and quantity of labour force.
-The approach limits education to economic ends but we know that education system should not only serve economic ends but also social, political and individual ends.
-It does not address itself to the cost issue in detail on how manpower will be financed but concentrates on projections which are likely to be white elephants in the economy.
johnson mwenjera answered the question on March 13, 2018 at 17:18


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