The government is investing over GH¢3 billion to boost technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in order to create employment opportunities for the youth of the country.
The investments, which started last year, are funded with support from AVIC International of China and the VACE and Amatrol Labs of Austria.
The Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, who disclosed this in an exclusive interview with the Daily Graphic, said part of the funding was going into the upgrade of all national vocational and technical institutes (NVTIs), the re-tooling of workshops in technical universities and the two polytechnics, as well as the construction of 32 modern TVET institutions across all the 16 regions of the country.
“Planet Core is expanding and upgrading 35 TVET institutions (NVTIs, Opportunities Industrialisation Centres (OICs) and establishing two new foundry and machining centres in Kumasi and Accra, at a cost of 119 million euros, the equivalent of GH¢642.60 million.
That was about 3.7 per cent of the ministry's total budget, Dr Prempeh said in the interview that bordered on the government's plans for the TVET sector.
The government, he explained, “has re-emphasised the importance of TVET and skills and anchored its key strategies around them to create employment for the youth”.
He said “a deputy minister has been appointed, since 2017, to be responsible for ensuring that our TVET agenda succeeds”.
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