The government is working to close the skills gap between industry and technical, vocational, and educational training (TVET).
This is done in acknowledgement of the reality that lifetime skill development is essential for equitable and sustainable growth, productivity, and innovation in the face of a changing labor market.
The Director-General of the Commission of TVET, Dr. Fred Kyei Asamoah, stated that "TVET, digitalization, and greening our environment are driving deep changes in the world today."
Speaking on the subject of "Transforming Ghana's economy through a robust TVET system," he asserted that economies could only profit if students acquired the necessary competencies and hard and soft skills in those fields.
In light of this, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his government set out to modernize TVET and create strong ties between business and TVET providers/academic institutions as part of the first five-year strategic plan (2018 to 2022), according to Dr. Asamoah.
According to him, the Cabinet-approved five-year strategic plan for TVET had five main policy objectives: governance and management, equitable access and the promotion of gender mainstreaming, quality assurance in TVET based on internationally recognized standards, sustainable source of funding for TVET, and greening TVET for environmental sustainability.
Successes
The government was able to create the Commission for TVET (CTVET) as a regulator and promoter for the sector, as well as a TVET Service (TVETS) in charge of delivering pre-tertiary TVET, according to Dr. Asamoah, who noted that the five years under review had seen some triumphs.
Twelve of the 22 selected economic sectors' sector skills organisations have already been constituted and inaugurated, according to the government, he continued.
He claimed the five-year strategic plan realized that 75% of the TVET curriculum then in use was out of date and needed to be altered to be in line with the president's instructions. This shed further light on the situation of the TVET sector prior to 2017.
upcoming strategy plan
Dr. Asamoah stated that the government was looking forward to creating a TVET strategy for the following strategic plan, which launches this year.
"Along with the licensing and professionalization of TVET graduates, we would be examining the TVET system's digitization."
"With the expansion of the Ghana skills development fund, we are trying to create a long-term TVET finance structure," he said.
Adding, "We are working towards connecting innovation and learning in TVET," Dr. Asamoah stated that as part of the CTVET's regulatory role, monitoring mechanisms will also be institutionalized through tracer studies at the TVET institutions, particularly in the technical universities.
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