Gov’t investing over $700m in TVET – Napo
The government has invested over USD700 million in Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sector since assuming office in January 2017, the Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has disclosed.
The Minister noted that the government will also construct a total of 32 state-of-the-art TVET institutions in each region, costing about half a billion dollars across all the regions of the country.
Delivering the keynote address at the TVET EXPO 2020 organised by the Council for Technical, Vocational Education and Training (COTVET) in Accra, Dr Prempeh disclosed that the government is upgrading and modernising all National Vocational Training Institutes (NVTIs) and Opportunity Industrialisation Centres (OIC).
The “government is also constructing three foundries and machining centres, work on which is ongoing.
“Further, work includes upgrading of 17 Technical and Vocational Institutes across the country and building an office complex to support the unit responsible for TVET examination”, Dr Prempeh stated.
He added that additional infrastructural equipment is being provided at all technical universities to achieve quality delivery at the tertiary level with industry 4.0 standards.
The expo comprises an outline of the key reforms being undertaken in the TVET sector by the Ministry of Education, through COTVET, as well as the launch of TVET ambassadors and role models, the digitisation of the registration and accreditation system of COTVET and the zonal skills competition.
Source: classfmonline.com
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