UNIDO expands footwear e-learning programme after Tanzania success

05/02/2015
Last year after UNIDO (the United Nations Industrial Development Organization) and the Leather Association of Tanzania joined forces with a local education provider in the city of Mwanza to run a new course on footwear pattern engineering, with e-learning the key to its success.

Now UNIDO has followed up on the success of the Mwanza programme by making new lessons and tests available as part of an expanded online footwear pattern engineering course and updated all the lessons that were already included.

The material is now “tried and tested”, according to UNIDO’s Ivan Kral, and can be rolled out as part of self-learning or classroom-based training programmes everywhere.

“This will open doors to millions who, by virtue of their remote location, limited time or resources, security issues or other constraints, would be unable to follow conventional learning programmes,” Mr Kral said.