The words of vocational training, defined.
Sixteen terms used in our pages, our terms of reference and our reports: their usual meaning, then what they cover at Pertia.
Turnkey vocational training
- An offer in which a single provider delivers an entire training programme under one contract: the infrastructure, mobile or fixed, the engineering, the trainers, the operation and the handover. The client sets the objectives and steers; the provider answers for delivery. Read more
Prime contractor
- The company that coordinates every part of a project (design, manufacturing, equipment, training, operation) and alone answers for it to the client. Pertia Group is a prime contractor for vocational training. Read more
Mobile training unit
UMF
- A vehicle or semi-trailer fitted out as a place of training (classroom, workshop, computer lab, language centre) that travels to the learners. Pertia’s units offer 60 m² and deploy in under ten minutes. Read more
Training caravan
- Several mobile units brought together on one enclosed site to train a cohort, usually for three months, with the services around it: power, sanitation, security, a career centre. Read more
Vocational campus
Cité des Métiers et des Compétences
- In Morocco, the Cités des Métiers et des Compétences are the new generation of regional vocational training campuses, bringing several trade hubs together on one site. At Pertia, a vocational campus is designed, equipped, run for its first year and then handed over. Read more
Training engineering
- The steps that turn a need into a programme: needs analysis, competency frameworks, division into modules and sessions, materials, an assessment plan and a final review. Read more
Competency framework
- The document that sets out, task by task, what a learner must be able to do at the end of a course. The modules, the materials and the assessment are built on it. Read more
Training of trainers
ToT
- Training that prepares local trainers to run a programme themselves. At Pertia it is done alongside the experts, so that local successors remain in place after the handover. Read more
Career centre
- The service that links training to work: guidance, preparation for the CV and the interview, introductions to employers, support with starting a business and with microcredit. Read more
Terms of reference
ToR
- The document that sets the objectives, target groups, sites, schedule and scope of an assignment. At Pertia they are written with the client’s departments and signed before anything starts. Read more
Steering committee
- The body that oversees a programme and takes its decisions. At Pertia it is chaired by the client and receives a report after every session. Read more
Cohort
- A group of learners following the same programme over the same period, from the first day to completion. In the technical trades, Pertia trains three-month cohorts of 15 to 20 learners per unit. Read more
EmONC
emergency obstetric and newborn care
- The care that treats complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the first days of life. It is at the heart of the programme for midwives that Pertia ran in Côte d’Ivoire from 2017. Read more
Donor
- An institution that funds development programmes: a development bank, a cooperation agency, a United Nations organisation. It funds against a logical framework, with indicators and procurement rules. Read more
Logical framework
logframe
- The matrix that links, for a funded project, the activities to the expected results and objectives, each with its indicators and means of verification. Read more
Public-private partnership
PPP
- A contract under which a private partner funds, builds or operates all or part of a public facility and is paid over its term. It is one of the five ways to finance a training programme. Read more
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