Cummins Technical Education for Communities

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Key Information

Cummins TEC: Technical Education for Communities is the first strategic community program built by Cummins from the ground up. Launched in 2012, its mission is to train disadvantaged youth in employable technical skills and connect them to good jobs in their communities through school-based, industry-supported skills training. Cummins’ TEC team developed curriculum, teacher training, guidance counseling manuals, achievement tests, equipment and tool lists, as well as methods for engaging local industry in curriculum and workplace learning opportunities for students. There are 24 Cummins TEC programs around the world. More than 1,700 students have graduated from Cummins TEC. 

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

East Asia & Pacific, Europe & Central Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East & North Africa, North America, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa

Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, India, Morocco, Nigeria, Peru, Romania, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Türkiye, United States of America

Activity URL

https://www.cummins.com/company/global-impact/corporate-responsibility/community-impact/technical-education-communities

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2012 -

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Secondary completion

Other

  • Transition from school to work

Other skills

  • Social and emotional learning

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Other academic performance-related

Cross-cutting areas

  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Teachers - female, Teachers - male

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Not applicable or unknown

School Level

Not applicable or unknown

Other populations reached

  • Boys in school
  • Girls in school

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Learning while working

  • Vocational training

School-related gender-based violence

  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general
  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved critical thinking
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased years of schooling

Cross-cutting goals

  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being