Collection of Labour Market Information System data ends
Preliminary work on the collection of data on the distribution of employment, unemployment and industrial accidents under the Labour Market Information System (LMIS) project has been completed.
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The completion of the work has paved the way for the implementation of a pilot project of the LMIS in the Central and the Greater Accra regions this month.
The Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Nii Armah Ashietey, made this known in an interview with the Daily Graphic on the sidelines of the third graduation of 24 Nigerians at the Kumasi Vocational Training Institute at Suame in Kumasi.
The training was made possible by Amnesty International Nigeria.
According to the minister, the work of a 13-member task force for the LMIS inaugurated in July 2013 would be used for the pilot project, which would be eventually replicated nationwide.
The LMIS seeks to assist job seekers to make decisions about their future career development by providing information on the needs of the labour market.
It also identifies current and future job market opportunities and provides analysis of the labour market based on the economic development of Ghana.
Nii Ashietey said another advantage of the system was that it would help education providers align course provision with labour market needs through the analysis of labour market trends.
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Technical training
He described technical training as a form of democracy because it liberated the learner from the bondage of ignorance and illiteracy.
Nii Ashietey said there were plans to upgrade polytechnics into technical universities.
The Director of the Kumasi Technical Institute (KTI), Mr Richard Addo Gyamfi, who also spoke at the ceremony, said in 2010 Ghana and Nigeria signed a memorandum with Learning Resources Nigeria Limited to train 1,000 youth from Nigeria within five years.
He said the national vocational training institutions in the country had so far trained 600 Nigerian youth in modern welding and fabrication.
Mr Gyamfi recounted some of the problems the institute faced in training the Nigerians as delay in the payment of monthly stipends to trainees, occasional absenteeism due to unaddressed issues between trainees and the vendor, as well as indiscipline on the part of some trainees.