Education Reform Report Lauded

The Advocacy Group on a comprehensive Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) policy for Ghana has lauded the findings of the report of the President’s Committee on Review of Education Reforms in Ghana.

It has therefore, urged the government to act with dispatch on the report, especially, the TVET section, to help Ghana derive maximum benefits from the sector.

In a statement issued in Accra and signed by Ms Comfort Ntiamoah Mensah, Director, Vocational Training for Females (VTF) Programme, the group pledged to cooperate fully with the government in moving the TVET sector.

The group agrees with the conclusions of the committee in the report that “A serious deficiency in the present public education system is the neglect of the TVET sub-sector” and therefore, urges that it is necessary to develop, modernize and expand TVET institutions as a matter of urgency.

“We also find as forward-looking, the call by the committee that the government should make a major shift in its state education policy in favour of the TVET sub-sector, in order to build the nation’s stock of human capital and give employable skills to the numerous youth all over the country” the release said.