The Ministry Of Education and Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET) have met and interacted with all the Training Providers of Integrated Community Centre for Employable Skills (ICCES) at the Pre-Tertiary Level.
According to the Deputy Minister of Education in Charge of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) who doubles as the Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North Constituency in the Eastern Region, Hon. Gifty Twum-Ampofo said, the purpose of the event is that, the Ministry of Education and COTVET want to bring ICCES under them and give them Competency Based Training (CBT) to boost up the teaching and learning across the country.
She indicated that, Parliament is working on the 5yrs Strategic plan of TVET transformation and as at now they have gotten to the 4th level. “We have met all the administrators of the various institutions who are under the Ministry institutions including the biggest National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI)”
“The ICCES is under the Ministry of Local Government and with this transformation plan they are all coming to be under the Ministry of Education. If we are doing this 5yrs strategic transformation plan, there is the need to involve them to know and understand the project”
“Moreover we want all the Technical and Vocational Institutions in Ghana to do one subject and write the same exams at a time” she explained.
Hon. Deputy Education Minister said, Ghana we has over 19 ministries, and they have one institution or the other of which they are all training the youth. “The most painful aspect of it all is that, after completing the school and issuing their certificate to them, they can’t take it anywhere, because some of the certificates are not credible and it make it things difficult for them to get job opportunity in the Gov’t institutions” she said.
“If we bring them under the Education Ministry and Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET) all those challenges would be solved. That’s why Prez Akufo-Addo says only one way we can stop poverty is TVET, so therefore let’s all get involved” she pleads.
She continued that, TVET is no more the last choice but rather first choice for the BECE graduates in most develop countries in the world yet we have TVET school in category A, B, C, and D, so the parents should take their wards to school and help the headteachers to select the TVET schools for their children who have interested in TVET by so doing we can eradicate unemployment’s system from the country.
“When it comes to the school placement system for TVET , every programme the school offers is attached, so the 2020 BECE graduates shouldn’t look at the name of the school to do their selection, rather they should consider the course they know they can do it best and select that TVET school to help them achieve their vision after completion” Hon. Gifty Twum-Ampofo advised.
Furthermore, the Acting Executive Director of Integration Community Centre for Employable Skills (ICCES), Mr. David Mensah also stressed, we are under Ministry of Employment and the country don’t have enough resources but gov’t says all the 19 institutions within the ministries should re-align with Ghana TVET services.
He noted that, now the management structure, and the focus of issues on infrastructure , human resources, logistics, promotion and everything is going to be focus under TVET services.
“We have so many infrastructure challenges and I believe that, now that the gov’t want to take over the ICCES, is a laudable idea and it will help us to resolve those problems we were facing” he praised.
By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.
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