The Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), Hon. Gifty Twum Ampofo has disclosed to the media that, the number of 2021 TVET candidates who are writing their final exams has increased to 24,000 as compared to that of 2019.
She said, in 2019 when Prez Akufo-Addo reshuffled her from Gender Ministry to Education Ministry, candidates who wrote the same exams were 17,000 but it has shoot up to 24,000 in 2021 labelling its a plus for the country.
“This means the advocacy we are doing about the TVET that, should school children had an opportunity of furthering their second cycle education they should choose the technical and vocational institutions has yielded a positive result” noted Hon. Gifty Ampofo.
The Hon. Deputy Education Minister who doubles as the MP for Abuakwa North North Constituency in the Eastern Region continue that, with the support of Akufo-Addo’s government in collaboration with the education ministry they’ve built a state of the art workshops with full modern machines for all the Technical and Vocational Institutions in Ghana to help better the standard of the Ghanaian students who are offering TVET courses in school.
Hon. Gifty Twum Ampofo made these known following her tour to some TVET centers in the eastern region to monitor and wish candidates partaking in the ongoing 2021 NABPTEX exams well.
Some of the schools visited by the MP includes; St. Joseph Technical and Vocational Institute – Kwahu Tafo, Abetifi Technical and Vocational Institute, as well St. Paul Technical Institute- Kukurantumi.
“If you learn the TVET and you do it well when you complete school, already you have your handiwork so if you couldn’t go to Technical University you can still do something for yourself to survive” she stressed.
She also disclosed that, the Ministry of Education and Commission For Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET) have secured a 200 million dollars meant for ‘Ghana Job and Skills Project’.
“After completion and getting a certified certificate that indicate you have completed Ghana Job and Skills Project and indeed you have learnt a handiwork and worked to a certain level, then you can go to formerly National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) now Ghana Enterprise Agency for a help.
The minister then noted that, after graduation, the graduates will have a training dubbed “entrepreneurship” organized by the Ghana Enterprise Agency in quest to support them financially to start their own Buisness to complement Ghana government aim of alleviating poverty from the Ghanaian society.
By// Kontihen Kofi Oboh.
Source// Obohnews.
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