Adukrom vocational institute calls for help
The management of J.G. Knol Vocational and Technical Institute at Adukrom in the Akwapem North Municipality in the Eastern Region has sent an appeal to the Ministry of Education and the Technical and Vocational Education Department (TVED) of the Ghana Education Service (GES) to assist in putting the school on a sound footing. The school was established in 2010.
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The Principal of the school, Mr Wisdom Narh Amatey, made the appeal at a stakeholders conference that took place on the school’s premises.
The conference aimed at finding solutions to the challenges the school was facing and ways of enhancing teaching and learning.
The school was founded by Holland-Ghana Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Utrecht, Holland.
Briefing stakeholders at the conference, Mr Amatey said the school was established based on research findings by a Dutch NGO, which showed that skills in both technical and vocational work were acquired through informal training.
Following that, it decided to provide a base for junior high school students desirous of acquiring a trade to undergo formal training before they entered the job market.
The school currently offers courses in Wood and Building Technology, Catering and Hospitality, Fashion, Textile Technology and Electrical Engineering. Other subjects taught are Mathematics, English Language, Integrated Science, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Social Studies.
In September 2012, the school was adopted by the Ghana Education Service as a government-assisted vocational and technical training institute.
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Mr Amartey said the school lacked resources such as a workshop for students who studied electrical engineering, a department for students undertaking technological subjects, a science laboratory, library books, extra classrooms and land for expansion purpose.
He was, however, grateful to Mr A. A. Akuoku, a former headmaster of the Presbyterian Secondary School, Legon and Prof. Edwin Andrews Afari, a lecturer at the Public Health Department of University of Ghana also in Legon, for being instrumental in the school’s acquisition of a parcel of land for its use.
A Deputy Director of GES in charge of Technical/Vocational Education (TVED), Mr Philip Kwesi Incoom, said the time had come for Ghanaians to pay attention to vocational and technical education. He advised the administrators of the school to get the Adukrom community, as well as the Akwapem North Municipal Assembly, involved in their planning activities.
He further encouraged the school to appeal to the GETFund and NGOs for more infrastructure for the school.