Director-General of the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Service, Mawusi Nudekor Awity, says the outfit is willing to support the Joy Learning Channel with adequate resources and qualified facilitators to help push the TVET education in Ghana.

According to her, Joy Learning is a good platform that can help educate young people on the importance of TVET education.

Mrs Nudekor Awity gave this assurance during an interview on Joy Learning's educational news programme - Campus 360.

"I will support, the Ministry of Education will support and TVET [Service] will put all our heart into it, so the people who are in the TVET schools don't feel left out. We have competent instructors that will help.”

"Most people think when you are in a TVET school that is it. The qualification now is proficiency 1 and 2 then Certificate 1 and 2, afterwards you can go to a Technical University to do your HND and continue to do your 1st degree and your masters and PHD,” she added.

“Gone were the days that when you go to the technical school, climbing up was a challenge. TVET is here to change the narrative and make the landscape very green."

On Tuesday, December 14, 2021, Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, launched the Ghana TVET Service, which seeks to consolidate all institutions under TVET.

Speaking at the launch of the Service at the Accra Technical Training Centre (ATTC), Dr Bawumia indicated that, henceforth, all the TVET institutions will operate under one umbrella to yield a significant boost to the sector.

TVET second-cycle institute

The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, hinted at government’s intention to establish the country's first-ever second cycle TVET Applied Technology High School.

He noted that the establishment of the School is in tandem with the government’s mission to make Ghana’s TVET centres one of the best in sub-Saharan Africa.

According to him, this would play a significant role in promoting the government’s TVET agenda.

“We’re going to establish the first-ever second cycle TVET Applied Technology High School across the country. The programmes to be offered at the Applied Technology High School will be designed as career-based technical education which integrates career and technical education with a rigorous academic core and industry participation,” he said.

The industry participation bit of the TVET Applied Technology High School “will drive demand for students who graduate from there,” he indicated.