Tunisia Tertiary Education for Employability Project

The development objective of the Tertiary Education for Employability Project for Tunisia is to improve the employability of tertiary education graduates and to strengthen the management of higher education. The project consists of two components. The first component, improving employability of graduates aims at improving the employability of future graduates by supporting supply side measures to better align graduates’ skills and competences with labor market needs. It consists of following two sub-components: (i) support a set of incentive measures, using the competitive grant scheme developed under the higher education reform project (projet d’appui à la réforme de l’enseignement supérieu (PARES II) project competitive fund scheme for quality support program (PAQ); and (ii) a set of systemic and cross-cutting activities which will support the preparation or implementation of the PAQ grants foreseen under sub-component one. The second component, strengthening the management of higher education will combine a set of PAQ incentives and systemic measures aimed at improving the management of the higher education system. It consists of three sub-components: (i) using the PAQ competitive grant scheme developed under the PARES II project - in particular the PAQ management capacity window, to improve governance and management, quality assurance, including through support to young universities; (ii) set of systemic measures (for example with regard to strategic planning, capacity building measures for better governance, quality assurance and financial management, student admission, and a functioning higher education management and information system) to support the areas of governance and management, quality assurance, and financing; and (iii) project management unit (PMU) to reinforce its coordinating and managing capacity by recruiting - on a competitive basis - additional qualified and experienced technical staff to effectively coordinate, monitor, and evaluate...