Vice president Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has disclosed plans by the government to set up the first ever second cycle applied technology institutions.
The institutions he noted would be established to train technical and vocational students.
He disclosed this at the official launch of the Ghana Technical and Vocational Education Training, (TVET) service in Accra on Tuesday December 14, 2022.
Dr Bawumia said the government was determined to growth the human capital of the country since that determines the growth of every country.
According to him, the institutions would be included into the selection process for Junior High Students under the Computer School Selection Programme in the next academic year.
“If you look at the empirical evidence, about what makes countries grow and develop, we know that it is not gold, it is not diamonds or oils or cocoa for that matter.
“It is not natural resources but the evidence is very clear that it is human resource that drive growth. The combination of human capital and technology that produces these increasing returns to investments in any economy that drives growth we have known this and you can see the attention the president and our government is paying to human capital and technology as a way of transformation”
The TVET Service brings together all the technical and vocational programmes run by the 19 different Ministries under the ambit of the Ghana TVET Service, with the Director General of the Service reporting to the Minister and Ministry of Education, like her counterpart, Director General of the Ghana Education Service and other agencies under the Ministry.
The operationalization of the Service is also to ensure the smooth take-off of Government’s flagship programme ‘Free TVET For All’, under which all the TVET Institutions which are now captured under the Ghana TVET Service will be included in the next academic year’s (February 2022) Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) for selection by the Junior High School graduates.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
