Deputy Education Minister visits 3 agencies

A deputy Minister of Education, Prof. Kingsley Nyarko, has paid a working visit to three agencies under the ministry to familiarise himself with their operations.

They are the Ghana Technical and Vocational Educational and Training (TVET) Service, Complementary Education Agency and National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA)

At the TVET Service where he interacted with staff, Prof. Nyarko said there was a need to strengthen the foundation of the country, which rested on TVET.

That’s how, he said, the country could be transformed for the betterment of all.

He charged the staff to be punctual at work at all times in order to prosecute the agenda of the government through the implementation of TVET.

“Let’s do our best to strengthen TVET education. I am happy that since the assumption of office, this government has succeeded in increasing the enrolment of students in TVET institutions. I think you are part of this success story,” the deputy minister told the staff.

He said from over 21,000, the number of students pursuing TVET programmes was about 150,000 across the country, saying that it was very impressive for the development and transformation of the country.

Prof. Nyarko told the staff that more had be done in TVET and that they should be proud of the sector that was leading the country’s transformation agenda.  

“Let’s all work hard to make TVET a success in this country,” he emphasised. 

He said TVET was an area the government, especially the President, had a keen interest in, adding that, “it is an area that we believe can help us to industrialise in our attempt to transform the country”.

The minister responded to various questions from staff. 

Mandate

At the Complementary Education Agency, the Executive Director, Catherine Appiah-Pinkra, said the agency was reborn about three years ago out of the Non-Formal Education Unit of the Ghana Education Service and was previously in charge of only adult education.

But with the coming in of the government and by an Act of Parliament, it had been given a new mandate and that was how come it was called complementary education, she said.

That, she said, meant it was not only dealing with the non-formal sector but dealt with anything that was complementary to education.