Director-General of the Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET), Dr Fred Kyei Asamoah, believes Ghana’s entrepreneurship and industrialization agenda can only succeed if the youth focus on equipping themselves with vocational and technical skills.
According to him, entrepreneurs rely on people with the requisite skills to survive “and because they don’t get the youth with these skills to support them, their businesses collapse alongside the jobs they create.”
With the government focused on seeing to the creation of jobs for the youth and reducing Ghana’s unemployment rate by providing an enabling environment for businesses to operate and survive, Dr Kyei Asamoah stated, “That is why we want to train and equip more people with technical and vocational skills. If a business person opens a cloth manufacturing company and doesn’t have seamstresses and tailors to work there, then it will collapse. A construction firm will also need electricians, plumbers and persons with other skill sets to provide full service. These are the number of people entrepreneurs may need to survive and with Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), we can achieve that and promote entrepreneurship.”
Speaking to Happy98.9FM’s Don Kwabena Prah on the Epa Hoa Daben political talk show, the CTVET boss argued technical and vocational skills training is the way to go in jumpstarting Ghana’s industrial revolution.
“For the 1D1F to thrive, we need industry technicians, tilers, software developers and other technical experts and we can do this with a conducive environment. Ghana would’ve seen massive development if the initiatives started and undertaken by President Akufo-Addo had taken place 30 years ago instead of 5 years ago. If we want Ghana to grow and develop in the coming years, then we need to invest in technical skills and training. If we do this we will not have our youth travelling through dangerous seas and the desert to seek for greener pastures,” he stated.
The Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training was established by the Education Regulatory Bodies Act 2020 (Act 1023)
Its mandate is to regulate, promote and administer technical and vocational education and training for transformation and innovation for sustainable development.
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