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Akufo-Addo promise to make Ghana the leading state in TVET

By Clement Edward Kumsah
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President Akufo-Addo has disclosed that the aim of his Government is to make Ghana a world-class centre for skills development, and a leading country in TVET delivery in Africa.

According to Akufo-Addo, “we want to emphasize the importance of TVET, and redeem the misconception that technical and vocational education is inferior, and patronized only by less endowed students.”

It is for this reason that on  March 15, 2018, the President, at the National Conference on Technical and Vocational Education, in Koforidua, in the Eastern Region, outlined Government’s strategic policy on Technical and Vocational Education and Training.

To this end, he stressed that Government has taken the decision to align and bring all public TVET institutions in the country under the direct supervision of the Ministry of Education to streamline their curricula and improve the coordination of their training, with the Deputy Minister for Education, Hon. Barbara Asher Ayisi, going to be specifically responsible, at the Ministry, for technical and vocational education.

“The 5-year Strategic Plan for TVET will result in the setting up a TVET Service and TVET Council, and a dedicated division of the education service for technical and vocational education, which would have its own Director General,” he said.

Addressing a gathering at the centenary celebrations of Asuansi Technical Institute, in Asuansi, in the Central Region, President Akufo-Addo said Government is tackling the perennial infrastructure problems of the TVET sector.

He started that work will start soon on the construction of 20 modern TVET institutions in various areas of the country, together with the upgrading of some 35 National and Vocational Training Institutes across the country, and upgrading colleges of education that specialize in technology.

The President added that there a major revision of the curricula of TVET schools to make them relevant to the needs of Ghana’s changing economy is underway.

“We recognise that science, technology and technical skills rule industry, and you rule yourself out if you are not appropriately equipped. Every child must be offered the opportunity to bring out her inherent talents for innovation. It is in the laboratories and workshops that young people get the opportunity to expand their imagination and develop the skills that would equip them for the modern world,” he said

President Akufo-Addo continued, “We need to modernise all aspects of our lives, and we need skilled people to lead the modernisation process. If we are to transform the structure of our economy from one dependent on the production and export of raw materials, to a value-added, industrialised one, then students from technical institutions, such as yours, are crucial.”

President Akufo-Addo commissioned an ICT laboratory, library, and an administration block for Asuansi Technical Institute, which was constructed by Government, in partnership with the African Development Bank, under the “Development of skills for Industry Project (DSIP)”.

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