President Nana Akufo-Addo will add Technical and Vocational Schools to the Free Senior High School program today, Wednesday, December 8, 2021, to the 47 already in place.
According to the Ministry of Education, 139 Technical and Vocational Schools will benefit from the free education policy, and students will be assigned to them using the Computerized School Selection Placement System.
This aims to broaden the scope of Technical and Vocational Education and make it more accessible to students.
The Ministry gave 2,794 Master Craft Persons and Apprentices vouchers to attend formal training in acknowledgment of the crucial role of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in the country’s industrialisation drive.
Under the Ghana TVET Voucher Project, the training resulted in the award of a National TVET Qualification Framework (NTVETQF) (GTVP). In addition, NTVETQF accreditation was awarded to 2,446 Competency-Based Training students.
Under Section 55 of the Pre-Tertiary Education Act, 2020 (Act 1049), the Ministry established a TVET Service to manage, oversee and implement approved national policies and programs.
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In 2022, the Ministry will expand the Free SHS Programme to cover all first-year students in public TVET Institutes as provided for under the Act.
In 2022, the Ministry is expected to continue with the implementation of the various reforms and projects in the TVET sector, including the rehabilitation and upgrading of technical universities, upgrading and modernization of the erstwhile 34 NVTI centers, retooling of TVET Institutes, and establishing 10 State-of-the-Art TVET Institutes.
In 2021, the Ministry continued the construction of nine Model Senior High Schools across the country. The status of completion as of September 2021 ranges from 32 percent in Kwadaso to 95 percent in Koase Senior High Technical School. In 2022, the Ministry will complete these model schools.
