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Technical students to write WAEC exams next year — Dep Education Minister
Students studying under the technical and vocational education programmes (TVET) will from 2022 be able to write their examinations under the West African Examination Council (WAEC) the Deputy Minister of Education in charge of TVET, Ms Gifty Twum-Ampofo, has announced.
That, she said, was to allow for easy access for those who might wish to enrol for regular university programmes to do so.
It followed what Mrs Twum-Ampofo said were the challenges sometimes associated with TVET students getting admissions to such schools apart from technical universities.
Speaking to the media in Tema during a tour of the Tema and Teshie Technical institutes to observe the ongoing final exams by the students, Ms Twum-Ampofo said the government was positioning TVET education as a project focus by improving the quality of training through a more demand-driven direction that would upgrade the skills set of both students and teachers.
The importance on academic qualifications, together with the growth of university enrolment, she explained, made it very difficult for students from TVET institutions to enrol into regular university programming, a move, she said, the Commission for Technical and Vocal Education (CTVET) was willing to reverse.
Tema Tech is among 13 technical and vocational institutions and some technical universities that are benefiting from a training centres upgrading project jointly being financed by the Ghanaian and the Chinese governments.
Workshops
The deputy minister also pointed out that technical and vocational education had become much more important now owing to the government’s industrialisation agenda through the One District, One Factory (1D1F) initiative.
As such, the ministry through the CTVET, in partnership with the Association of Ghanaian Industries (AGI), the minister said had established a skill body group which was supervising the development of new curriculum to enhance teaching and learning in addition to internship placement in industries for students.
Ms Twum-Ampofo thus challenged the general public to disabuse their minds of the notion that TVET education was for students who could not make the needed grades to be admitted to mainstream senior high schools (SHS) or universities.
She expressed the hope that the support given to the institutions through the provision of modern equipment and the needed logistics would encourage more young people to opt for technical education.
Tema Tech
The Principal of the Tema Tech, Mr Asamoah Duku, in his remarks, expressed worry at the dilapidated structures housing students which he said had over the years not seen any form of rehabilitation since the establishment of the institution decades ago.
“Most of our equipment for teaching and learning have become obsolete significantly affecting the quality of hands-on training,” Mr Duku said.
11-member CTVET Governing Board inaugurated
An eleven-member Governing Board of the Commission for Technical Vocational Education and Training (CTVET) has been inaugurated in Accra.
The new Board has the onerous task of using technical, vocational education and training in solving the unemployment and other pressing matters in Ghana, especially, in a post-pandemic era.
The Board is chaired by Nana Wireko Ampem-Opoku.
Other members of the Board are Mrs. Felicia Boakye Yiadom, Mrs. Constance Swaniker, Dr. Fred Kyei Asamoah, Mrs. Catherine Appiah-Pinkrah and Mrs. Emma Ofori Agyemang.
The rest are Mr. John Mensah Anang, Dr. Helen K. Essandoh, Dr. James Asare Adjei and Mrs. Aretha Ama Graham Addai.
One other member supposed to be the Director-General, TVETs is yet to be provided.
Members of the CTVET Governing Board took oath of office as well as oath of secrecy.
The Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Adutwum, who inaugurated the Board at a short event held at the Ministry of Education on Thursday, September 23, 2021, tasked the members to bring their expertise to bear in making technical, vocational education and training in Ghana better than before.
According to him, there are already in place quite a number of policies which if implemented, would help transform technical, vocational education and training by creating employment avenues for the teeming unemployed youth..
He told the Board that now was the time to implement those policies, noting that no excuses will be tolerated.
“We have a number of policies in place and so there is no need to go and draft new policies. What is needed now is implementation. So, I expect the Board to move into action and implement those policies to make technical, vocational education and training in Ghana better”, he noted.
Dr. Adutwum further stated that there will be a reformation in the technical and vocational schools which will help improve upon the technical and vocational knowledge of the students.
In view of this, he said there will be three days field work and two days classroom work within the academic week.
This, he added, should create an efficient working system to track the necessary records of students for positive outcomes.
Deputy Education Minister, DG of CTVET tour TVET institutions
The Deputy Minister for Education in charge of TVET Hon. Gifty Twum Ampofo and the Director General of CTVET, Dr. Fred Kyei Asamoah have been touring selected technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions which are serving as centers for the ongoing 2021 May/June Certificate II Core Exams.
Students in TVET institutions who started writing their May/June Certificate II Core Exams from 6th September, 2021 are expected to complete on 13th September, 2021.
Speaking to the media, Hon. Gifty Twum Ampofo indicated that “this assessment has been designed to ensure that students’ transition to the world of work or pursuit of higher academic laurels is seamless”. She added that, “government has taken the necessary steps to ensure that their certification is recognized by both industry and institutions of higher learning.”
So far, they have visited the Accra Technical Training Centre at Kokomlemle, Dabokpa Technical Institute, Tamale Technical Institute, Walewale Technical Institute, St. Bernadette, Navrongo Technical Institute and Bolgatanga Technical Institute.
Dr. Fred Kyei Asamoah also indicated that he is happy with the conduct of the exams so far and assured the general public that the Commission has taken enough precautionary steps to ensure that the sanctity and integrity of the examinations is upheld.
May/June Certificate II Core Exams.
The May/June Certificate II Core Exams is administered annually to all eligible TVET learners across the country by the Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET).
The subjects which are written include Mathematics, Integrated Science, English Language, Social Studies and Entrepreneurship.
This examination will enable the learners to either progress to Technical Universities (including other Tertiary Institutions/Universities) or transition to the world of work.
Source: www.modernghana.com
Education Ministry adds 139 Technical & Vocational Schools to Free SHS programme
The Ministry of Education has included 139 Technical and Vocational Schools into the Free Senior High School programme, in addition to the 47 already on it. This is aimed at expanding the scope of Technical and Vocational Training and making it more accessible for pupils to enrol.
The National Coordinator for the Computerized School Selection Placement System, Mark Sasu Mensah, revealed this at a Pilot Training at Effiduase in the Eastern Region on the Computerized School Selection and Placement System, CSSPS for parents, teachers and pupils in the New Juaben North Municipality.
He indicated that 10 districts have been selected in the country for the pilot training to help resolve some of the challenges that come with Senior High Schools Selection.
The New Juaben North Municipal Education Director, Beverly Dansoa Bartels, was happy that the programme will enlighten the participants on how to select their SHS and advised parents to collaborate with the teachers of their children to know their capabilities before selecting schools. Some parents and pupils who participated in the training shared their views with GBC News, welcoming the opportunity offered them.
In all, 35 schools in the Municipality participated in the programme. Statistics from WAEC show that 539,202 pupils from 18,000 and 13 schools have been registered to write this year’s BECE in November.
Source: www.gbcghanaonline.com
TVET not for dull students — Dep. Education Minister
The Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET), Mrs Gifty Twum-Ampofo, has urged parents not to stop their wards from pursuing TVET-related courses.
She said the notion that TVET courses were for students who were not academically brilliant was one of the factors that discouraged people from studying those courses at both secondary and tertiary levels.
According to the minister, “TVET is never for the second grade individual, it is never for the people who are not smart.”
Investment
Mrs Twum-Ampofo made the appeal in an interview with the Daily Graphic when the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education toured some TVET institutions in the Ashanti Region.
She explained that the investment the government was making in TVET education and the equipment bought to retool the workshops could not be left to people who were not serious to manage.
“TVET is for the people who can manage facilities concerning our lives and these are the first-class students and I am appealing to parents to encourage their children who are smart and wish to do TVET to do so.
“Teachers should also guide our young ones into TVET and by doing so, you reduce poverty to a very large extent and you also reduce youth unemployment,” she said.
Job creation
According to the Deputy Minister, promoting TVET formed part of the government’s agenda of Ghana beyond aid and believed that the products from these TVET institutions would constitute the manpower for the country’s industrialisation agenda.
She said with the kind of equipment at the TVET secondary schools in the country, products from the second cycle institutions could be self-employed and even employ others with their skills.
She said the objective was to equip TVET students with the technical and entrepreneurial skills that could make them self-employed and thereby reducing the rate of employment in the country.
Impression
Mrs Twum-Ampofo was impressed with the effort of the management of the Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development (AAMUSTED) to increase the number of TVET students and also expand the existing infrastructure to accommodate more students.
She was, particularly, impressed with the well-equipped workshops at the university which, she said, showed the readiness of the university to train the teachers for the TVET schools.
Visit
Led by its chairman, Mr Kwabena Amankwah Asiamah, the committee visited AAMUSTED, Kwadaso Methodist Technical Institute, Kumasi Technical Institute and the Kumasi Technical University where the members were taken round the facilities of the schools.
Source: www.graphic.com.gh
Parliament’s Select Committee on Education lauds government for huge investments in the Technical Universities
The Parliamentary Select Committee on Education has lauded government’s effort in procuring equipment for the various Technical Universities to train students.
According to the Select committee, the evidence on the ground in the pursuit of better Technical and Vocational Education by government is encouraging and should be supported to augment the industrialization drive of the country.
Speaking after a tour of some technical universities, Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee, Kwabena Amankwa Asiamah, intimated that government ought to be commended hugely for the interventions in the Technical and Vocational Institutions across the country.
He said the Committee’s happiness stems from the fact that there has been an unprecedented infrastructural support, machinery and equipment installations that have been done on the various campuses of the technical universities.
The chairman said, for government to procure such large number of equipment, some pat on the back is in order.
“This is what we want to see. We want to reduce the unemployment rate within the youth. The teeming youth don’t have jobs because of the concentration on grammar schools.”
At the Cape Coast Technical University, the third institution visited, Mr. Amankwa Asiamah was convinced that now that the country has realized the fact that there should be massive investments in the TVET sector, there should be a conscious effort to make the youth become more innovative and creative so that they could acquire the needed skills from the TVET sector, employ themselves and employ others to totally reduce the unemployment rate.
He specifically asked parents to consider sending their wards to the Technical Universities to learn skills to boost Ghana’s industrialization drive.
“We want parents to depart from the grammar schools and embrace technical and vocational education because it holds the key to the future development of the country.”
Deputy Ranking member of the select committee, Dr. Clement Apak said he’s impressed with government’s continuity policy when it comes to technical and vocational education.
“I think that the decision to convert the polytechnics into Technical Universities initiated by the previous NDC government led by John Dramani Mahama is certainly paying dividends. I am happy because the current government also continued and that’s what we expect in the national interest,” he stated.
Deputy Minister of Education, in charge of TVET, Gifty Twum Ampofo, explained that government was retooling the entire educational sector making TVET a central pillar starting from the basic schools.
The technical institutes at the second cycle level, she said, were having a face-lift and the whole of TVET is being touched by improving infrastructure, building workshops and laboratory for them and retooling the workshops with state-of-the-art equipment.
Director General for Commission of TVET, Dr. Fred Kyei Asamoah Asiamah, talked about the revolution that was currently happening in the TVET sector.
He said even the leading universities don’t have some of the equipment the technical universities now have.
“It is also an appeal that our technical universities and technical institutes are equipped to give them all the skills they need to be able to be successful. You go to the Cape Coast Technical Institute and you realize that they have similar equipment.”
Vice Chancellor of the Cape Coast Technical University, Prof. Joshua Danso Owusu Sekyere was upbeat if government could continue with the progress in the sector and provide more, the Technical Universities would be a great catalyst for the growth of industries in the country.
Source: www.myjoyonline.com
CTVET BAGS 2ND BEST PERFORMING AGENCY AWARD
The Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET) has placed second for the Ministry of Education (MoE) Meritorious Award 2020.
The award was in recognition of CTVET’s outstanding achievement in the implementation of the Ministry’s Roadmap in line with the 2020 Performance Agreement, for all its agencies.
The presentation was made during the mid-year ‘Accounting to the Minister’ and 2020 Performance Evaluation Feedback Forum held for all Agencies under the Ministry.
In his remarks, the Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum (MP), called for collaboration between all Agencies of MoE to ensure the realization of Government ‘s education priorities.
Dr. Adutwum reminded them of the need to identify existing gaps in the education system and devise strategies and innovations to change the paradigm.
Present were the Deputy Minister for Education, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour; the Chief Director of MoE, Mr. Benjamin K. Gyasi; and all the Heads of Agencies under MoE.
Government committed to modernising vocational education – Fanteakwa North MP
The Chairperson of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education, Kwabena Amankwa Asiamah, has said the government continues to spend on the upgrading and modernisation of the country’s vocational education system.
Technical Universities across the country are also being retooled and equipped to drive the government’s industrialisation programme.
This is being spearheaded by the Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training.
Mr. Asiamah, the Fanteakwa North MP, noted that the government, through this programme, was committed to training more of the youth to help fulfil its industrialisation agenda.
“It has been clear that the expenditure of the government in TVET is not rogue. It is real,” Mr. Asiamah said.
“The latest machines are being installed and we can see that these machines will help our youth to learn the modern technology and also fit in the modern way of doing things so we can rub shoulders with all other students who are doing technical education in any other country.”
The Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training’s primary responsibility is to regulate, promote and administer technical and vocational education and training for transformation and innovation for sustainable development.
It formulates policies for skills development across pre-tertiary and tertiary education, formal, informal and alternative education, whilst supervising the activities of technical and vocational education and training institutions to meet the requirements of both the formal and informal sectors.
The commission was established by the Education Regulatory Bodies Act 2020 (Act 1023)
Source: www.citinewsroom.com
More than 17,000 apprentices and master craftsmen trained under TVET project since 2017
Director-General of the Commission for TVET, Dr. Fred Kyei Asamoah, says government, through the Ministry of Education, has trained more than 17,527 apprentices and master craftsmen since 2017 across the country.
The Project is a government initiative being implemented by the Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, with funding from the German Development Bank.
At a media briefing in Accra, Dr. Asamoah said the training is part of government’s empowerment programme for the youth to contribute to economic development.
He said transforming TVET is to formalise the informal sector to make it globally competitive.
Dr Asamoah was emphatic that, given the needed support and acceptance, the TVET sector stands the chance to accelerate the nation’s economic growth within the shortest time possible.
He was particularly, happy that out of the 17 thousand 527 trainees, 73 per cent were women. This he said, has the potential of increasing the income level of females who are considered to be vulnerable in society.
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