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Mahama To Revamp TVET Education As Key To Ghana’s Transformation

Education Mahama To Revamp TVET Education As Key To Ghanas Transformation
AUG 16, 2019 LISTEN

The Flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress, (NDC), John Dramani Mahama says he will build on the strides his administration made towards revamping and repositioning Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)in the country.

Speaking at the launch of the 27th Annual Residential Delegates Congress of the Ghana Union of Technical Students (GNUTS) in Kumasi, the former President said he will move to rebrand TVET and make it more attractive to students.

“It is my intention, in the future government that I will head, to rebrand TVET into an alternative of first choice rather than the wretched path that students are compelled to take when all other doors are closed to them,” President Mahama noted.

Mr. Mahama said his administration will continue to clear the pathway toward technical and vocational education training from the basic level through the secondary to the tertiary level, adding “I daresay that we need our brightest and best to take the path of technical education if we are to transform this country.”

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The John Mahama administration started the repositioning of TVET through strategic resourcing and capacity building.

That process led among others to retooling a number of technical institutes and the conversion of polytechnics into technical universities.

The NDC's idea to turn polytechnics into technical universities, he stated, was for very good reasons.

“It was about taking education, especially technical & vocational education seriously- making it an anchor of national development and an instrument of national transformation”.

Mr. Mahama also explained that the conversion of polytechnics into technical universities was to help advance more vigorously, a process of repositioning them as strategic institutions that train personnel with high-level technical skills in the TVET domain, towards the country's economic and national development agenda.

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The NDC Flagbearer described the journey from HND to BTech as unnecessary, too long and unreasonably frustrating.

According to him, it was a real struggle for students to gain admission into the few higher education institutions, which offered the HND holder the opportunity for a top-up to upgrade their qualifications into a degree.

---citinewsroom

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