THE Greater Accra Regional Minister, Nii Armah Ashietey, has stated that in spite of the various educational reforms introduced over the years, technical and vocational education has not received the needed support and attention to meet the challenges that confront the country. He said the training facilities of the institutions remained outdated and inadequate to meet modern-day requirements.
The regional minister said this in a speech read on his behalf at the 26th Speech and Prize-giving Day and Graduation Ceremony of the Catholic Social Advance Institute (CSAI) in Accra on Friday.
A total of 206 students graduated after completing different levels of education. Out of the number, 40 of them pursued vocational courses, 16 completed secretarial courses, while 150 of them graduated from senior high school (SHS).
One-hundred and twenty two students were presented with books and certificates for their academic excellence, discipline, hard work, neatness and participation in sporting activities.
The minister reaffirmed government’s commitment to modernise and expand technical and vocational schools.
Additionally, it would provide the necessary resources to boost technical and vocational education training (TVET) in the country.
To demonstrate its commitment to the development of education, he said the government was boldly addressing the deficiencies and weaknesses in the country’s educational system.
He said it had demonstrated a commitment to ensure a minimum of one SHS in every constituency, revamp the science resource centres in selected SHS in the country, among others.
The minister expressed the government’s commitment to make education affordable, accessible and relevant to the needs of the Ghanaian society through the expansion of infrastructure, materials and adequate training of teachers.
He added that the practice of occultism and other vices in institutions was worrying and appalling in recent times and
stressed the need for Ghanaians to wage a relentless war on occultism and cyber crime among the youth.
Those vices, he said, did not only divert the attention of the youth, especially students, from focusing on their studies but also destroyed the entire moral fibre of the society.
The Principal of the school, Ms Rosa Mamaa Sam, congratulated the graduates and advised them to desist from using the computer knowledge acquired in defrauding innocent citizens.
She said the school had equipped its students with the requisite moral values that would help them to compete with their colleagues wherever they found themselves.
The Chief of Adabraka Atukpai, Nii Tetteh Adjabeng I, advised the graduates to hold morals in high esteem and stand up to all challenges in the society.
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