17th May 2024 10:44:20 AM
2 mins readThe government has announced its intention to increase the proportion of students pursuing Technical and Vocational Educational Training (TVET) to 50% of all learners, as part of efforts to address the country’s unemployment rate.According to the Commission for Technical and Vocational Educational Training, there has been a significant increase in the number of Junior High School students pursuing TVET programmes at Senior High Schools.
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However, more efforts are needed to make the sector more attractive, especially to young people.Dr. Fred Kyei Asamoah, Director-General of the Commission, stressed the importance of Ghana embracing TVET, citing examples from countries like Germany, where 65% of learners pursue TVET.He highlighted the significance of dual training, which involves students combining workplace experience with traditional lectures.
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“The perception about TVET is international, it’s not only in Ghana. When we came first into government, the percentage of learners going into TVET in Germany was close to 70 percent.
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Now is about 65 so the Germans are looking for a new approach, advanced dual TVET, so you want to go to the university, that’s fine but it has to be dual training, so you go to the workplace three days and go for lectures two days because whether we like it or not, the TVET approach is what’s going to happen.””So, it’s about product.
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If you look at what we’ve done, moving from below 20,000 learners from junior secondary schools going to TVET to over 60,000 it is something significant. But have we gotten there yet? No! We are expecting that at Keats about 50 percent of our learners should be opting for TVET.
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”Janet Abobigo, Entrepreneur and CEO of Unijay Company Limited, welcomed the government's initiative, noting that it will enhance Ghana’s TVET sector and create more job opportunities for the youth.She emphasized the significance of technical knowledge in industries and the potential for exporting goods to countries like the US.
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