Executive Director for Education Watch, Kofi Asare has lauded the government for introducing the TVET Service
According to him, the move will promote pre-tertiary technical and vocational education in Ghana.
At a ceremony in Accra, the Vice President,Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia launched the Ghana Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Service to give further impetus and direction to Government’s priority focus on technical and vocational education and training.
This follows the passage of the Pre-tertiary bill into law 2020, allows for the creation of TVET Services.
This Service brings together all the technical and vocational programmes run by the 19 different Ministries under the ambit of the Ghana TVET Service, with the Director General of the Service reporting to the Minister and Ministry of Education, like her counterpart, Director General of the Ghana Education Service and other agencies under the Ministry.
The operationalization of the Service is also to ensure the smooth take-off of Government’s flagship programme “Free TVET For All”, under which all the TVET Institutions which are now captured under the Ghana TVET Service will be included in the next academic year’s (February 2022) Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) for selection by the Junior High School graduates.
Speaking in an interview with Peace FM, Kofi Asare observed that TVET will promote and advance technical and vocational education in Ghana.
He was also optimistic that the Service will help to streamline and standardize technical and vocational educational across different Ministries and Agencies.
