The Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) has announced the completion of a four-day competency-based training (CBT) and implementation process workshop by forty staff in Accra.

According to GAEC, the workshop aims at enhancing the teaching abilities of its staff as facilitators to provide learners with the appropriate knowledge and skills to perform workplace roles in industry and administration efficiently.

This was contained in a press statement signed and released by the Deputy Director of Commercialisation and Communications, Ms Sheila Frimpong on Tuesday, January 23, 2024.

The statement revealed that the workshop forms part of an agreement between the GAEC and the Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET) in 2023 under the Ghana TVET Voucher Project (GTVP) for which GAEC will provide competency-based training and assessment in welding and fabrication as well as consumer electronics for national proficiency I and II.

Speaking during the four-day capacity-building workshop, the Director-General of the GAEC, Professor Samuel Boakye Dampare, explained that the GAEC availed itself to collaborate with CTVET to fulfill one of its mandates to facilitate education and training activities at various levels within its area of expertise and to transfer technologies.

“The Commission is therefore delighted to fulfill its obligation in contributing to national development by sharing its expertise and experience to generate long-term employment opportunities,” he added.

Prof. Dampare described the workshop as a trainer-of-trainers exercise and indicated that it kickstarts the process of building and enhancing the competencies of artisans in electronics and welding for their employability and entrepreneurship while urging participants to take every lesson seriously.

He expressed his appreciation to the GAEC team for their vision, creation of the concept paper, and diligent work in preparing and submitting the proposals that resulted in GAEC being granted a service contract to provide skills and knowledge in a specific trade and vocation for sustainable job creation.

“I will therefore entreat the project coordinator and the managers to do their best in implementing the project successfully per the contract terms, to the satisfaction of partners and sponsors, and to GAEC's credit,” Prof Dampare said.

On her part, the Project Coordinator of TVET at GAEC, Sheila Frimpong Mensah, thanked CTVET for their continuous collaboration and assured them of quality service delivery.

“We have done it before and we will do it even better this time. I call on my colleagues that we meet and exceed expectations”, she noted.

Participants were taken through the TVET transformational system in Ghana, the CBT concept and package, the eight levels of the national TVET qualification framework, the CBT program structure, assessment, and verification, among others.