the integrated technical education cluster initiative itec represents a valuable effort to provide vet of high quality clearly articulated across different educational levels and designed to be more responsive to employers skills needs the key point of this cluster model is to ensure that resources are integrated to achieve the highest level of utilisation and set up a clear progression path to higher technical skills for students that must be also transparent and understandable to employers these clusters have four components a technical secondary school a technical institute an advanced technical institute and a vocational training centre crucially the curricula and programme design of these clusters at all levels is meant to be inspired by local labour market needs