MoE reveals number of students offering TVET for 2023/2024 year

A total of 60,481 prospective students are currently in various government Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for the 2023/2024 academic year, the Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum has said.

In a speech read on his behalf by Prof. Mark Adom Asamoah, Advisor on STEM at the Ministry of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum said the total number of enrolments in TVET institutions, which provide free TVET, stands at 157,681.

This follows the realignment of TVET institutions to the Ministry of Education (MoE) and consolidation of the Free TVET for ALL, coupled with the implementation of the MyTVET campaign to change perceptions about TVET in the country.

The speech read at the maiden TVET Symposium and the launch of the Second Edition of the Ghana TVET Report in Accra said the 2023/2024 TVET enrollment surpasses less than the 20,000 students enrolled annually prior to 2017.

The conference, which was on the theme: “Advancing Technical and Vocational Education and Training and skills development towards sustainable and decent job creation,” was attended by officials from TVET institutions, and students.

Dr Adutwum also said to fully harness the potential offered by Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), the government had initiated a number of policies as part of the TVET transformation agenda,

The Minister for Education also said the government and in the process of developing a new Competency Based Training (CBT) curriculum amidst massive investments in TVET infrastructure, and TVET teacher training, among others.

Dr Fred Kyei Asamoah, Director General, Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET) in his remark, stated that as part of the Commission’s mandate as stipulated in Act 1023, they were expected to develop and publish annual reports on the state of TVET in Ghana.

He said the Commission for Technical and Vocational and Training had since 2022 been developing those reports meant to collect data on a set of indicators to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of the TVET sector.

The Director General of CTVET said the TVET Reporting provided a spine for the development of programmes and Policy formulation and also contributed to building a robust TVET system for Ghana’s development.