SAWLA, Ghana, 22nd May: President John Dramani Mahama has announced government plans to establish a new Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Centre of Excellence in the Sawla District in the Savannah Region.
According to him, the project will be implemented through a World Bank-supported programme involving the World Bank.
Speaking during his two-day “Resetting Ghana” tour of the Savannah Region, President Mahama explained that the new facility will provide young people who aspire to acquire technical and vocational skills with a dedicated centre for practical training and skills development.
He stated: “With regards to the technical and vocational education, the Education Minister already announced to you that using a World Bank program, we are going to build a new TVET Center of Excellence here in the Sawla District, so that our children who want to acquire technical skills and vocational skills would have a place to go and learn”
He further emphasized government’s strategic shift toward expanding technical and vocational education as a key pillar of national development, noting that more emphasis will be placed on TVET institutions rather than solely expanding traditional senior high schools.
“It is our intention to scale up technical and vocational educational training.And so instead of building more senior high schools, our intention is to build more technical and vocational schools, so that the young ones who prefer to go down the technical vocational track can go straight and do their technical vocational and go into the world of work. And so the school here in Sawla District will be one of those”
President Mahama on Friday, 22nd May, officially began a two-day #ResettingGhana tour of the Savannah Region, engaging with local stakeholders and inspecting key development projects.
His first stop was at Sawla, where he observed demonstrations under the National Basic Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (BSTEM) programme at the Sawla D/A Basic School.
He later proceeded to inspect ongoing rehabilitation works on the Sawla-Wa highway and the Bole-Tinga road, both being executed under the government’s Big Push Project.
As part of activities on the first day of the tour, the President also cut sod for the construction of the Bole District 24-hour Economy Model Market and other development projects at the Bole College of Education, among others.
Story by: Emmanuel Romeo Tetteh(#RomeoWrites✍️)/Ahotoronline.com | Ghana 🇬🇭