How can vocational lecturers bridge the gap between colleges and industry?

This briefing note introduces the Quality Vocational Lecturers (QVL) toolkit for supporting ‘quality’ lecturers within technical and vocational education and training (TVET) colleges. The QVL Toolkit was developed for the ‘Quality of TVET college lecturing staff’ project, as part of the five-year research programme on TVET for South Africa’s Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET). Whilst this research was based in South Africa, the QVL toolkit and model have implications for TVET policymakers more widely.