{"id":682874,"date":"2019-08-16T07:05:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T07:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"<br><p>The Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress, (NDC), John Dramani Mahama says he will build on the strides his administration made towards revamping and repositioning Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET).<\/p><p>Speaking at t"},"modified":"2019-08-16T07:05:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T07:05:32","slug":"tvet-education-is-key-to-ghanas-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/16\/tvet-education-is-key-to-ghanas-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"TVET education is key to Ghana\u2019s transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress, (NDC), John Dramani Mahama says he will build on the strides his administration made towards revamping and repositioning Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the launch of the 27th Annual Residential Delegates Congress of the Ghana Union of Technical Students (GNUTS) in Kumasi, the former president<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0said he will move to rebrand TVET and make it more attractive to students.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt is my intention, in the future government that I will head, to rebrand TVET into an alternative of first choice rather than the wretched path that students are compelled to take when all other doors are closed to them,\u201d President Mahama noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Mahama said his administration will continue to clear the pathway toward technical and vocational education training from the basic level through the secondary to the tertiary level, adding \u201cI daresay that we need our brightest and best to take the path of technical education if we are to transform this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-542348\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GNUTS-Conference-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The John Mahama administration started the repositioning of TVET through strategic resourcing and capacity building.<\/p>\n<p>That process led among others to retooling a number of technical institutes and the conversion of polytechnics into technical universities.<\/p>\n<p>The NDC\u2019s idea to turn polytechnics into technical universities, he stated, was for very good reasons.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt was about taking education, especially technical &amp; vocational education seriously- making it an anchor of national development and an instrument of national transformation\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Mahama also explained that the conversion of polytechnics into technical universities was to help advance more vigorously, a process of repositioning them as strategic institutions that train personnel with high-level technical skills in the TVET domain, towards the country\u2019s economic and national development agenda.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-542349\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GNUTS-Conference.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The NDC Flagbearer described the journey from HND to BTech as unnecessary, too long and unreasonably frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, it was a real struggle for students to gain admission into the few higher education institutions, which offered the HND holder the opportunity for a top-up to upgrade their qualifications into a degree.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress, (NDC), John Dramani Mahama says he will build on the strides his administration made towards revamping and repositioning Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). 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