Dr. Fred Kyei Asamoah, Director-General of the Commission for Technical and Vocational Educational Training, has underscored the need for Ghana to embrace TVET, citing international examples such as Germany, where 65% of learners pursue TVET.
He said there was a need for us to introduce dual training, where students combine workplace experience with lectures.
He said that although the number of junior high school students pursuing TVET programmes at senior high schools has increased significantly, more needs to be done to make the sector more attractive, especially to young people.
He indicated that plans were underway to increase the number of students pursuing Technical and Vocational Educational Training (TVET) to 50% of all learners to address the country’s unemployment rate.
“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. 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. 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.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
