Youth must embrace TVET — Mawusi Awity
The outgoing Director-General of the Ghana Technical, Vocational Education and Training Service (TVETS), Mawusi Nudekor Awity, has urged the youth to embrace TVET training as a result of its positive impact on the economy.
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She said the government’s decision to fully embrace and recognise TVET education was the surest way to improve the economy through the provision of employable skills for the teaming youth who completed their studies.
Ms Awity, who said this at a farewell service for her, noted that since 2021 when she took over as the first Director-General of GTVET, she had ensured that most of the TVET institutions across the country had received facelifts in the area of infrastructure, equipment training and quality tuition.
Testament
That, she said, was a testament that could be verified in almost all the regional capitals.
She noted that currently, TVET training has provided the required opportunities for trainees to further their educational skills and attain tertiary education in the various technical universities in the country.
“The notion that technical and vocational education was for those who were not knowledgeable is a thing of the past,” she stressed.
She said even though she was exiting the public sector, she was willing to lend her support to the sector anytime and anywhere when necessary and urged beneficiaries of the GTVET to tell the story to those who had not yet made up their minds to embrace TVET training.
Industry collaboration
Ms Awity further intimated that GTVET had, for the past years, liaised with industry players and given students who enrolled in the sector the needed experience and knowledge to improve and sharpen their skills while on the field.
That situation, she noted, had created an atmosphere for a great relationship between industry and the institutions where TVET was taught.
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“This would not have been done without the help of the Ministry of Education and its allied agencies,” she said and advocated for TVET educational centres across the country to reach out to more youth who, for one reason or another, are unable to enter into mainstream tertiary education.
Hopeful
Ms Awity was hopeful that anyone who took over from her would continue the good work exhibited during the last few years and make TVET education more attractive and visible for the youth to embrace it.
The Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, for her part, thanked the outgoing Director-General for her dedication, selflessness and innovative skills during her tenure as the leader of the GTVET.
She said Ms Awity’s tenacity and devotion to affecting the lives of the youth and the encouragement she had given to the youth across the length and breadth of the country had been enormous.