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25th November, 2011
‘Review Vocational Skills Syllabus’
The Chief Inspector of Schools of the National Inspectorate Board,of the Ghana Education Service, Dr. George Afeti, has proposed a review of the Vocational Skills Syllabus for Junior High Schools to enable the programme to reflect the needs of today’s job market.
The current, syllabus, he explained is too overloaded and as such does not give enough room for the students to develop their full technical potential during the three- year JHS period.
Dr. Afeti made the proposal at a forum on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Accra last Wednesday.
The forum organised by the Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET) themed, “Technical Vocational Training in Ghana, Hope for the Youth, Hope for the future, was aimed at soliciting views from major stakeholders towards charting a new path for TVET.
He said apart from overloading the syllabus, there was no empirical evidence that the vocational subjects that the students flirt with at the JHS level had any strong bearing on their future career choices or further studies at a higher level.
The Chief Inspector stated that a good basic education must provide a solid foundation for a good technical and vocational towards a problem solving approach to learning and conceptual thinking.
Dr. Afeti indicated that the main objective of TVET is to support economic growth and create national wealth for the teeming youth who would complete junior high schools, adding, “We need to focus on technical and vocational education that would not be a mere tool in the hands of the youth but to also have the ability to alleviate poverty and raise living standards”.
The Chief Executive Officer of Future Leaders Group, Emmanuel Dei-Tumi, who supported the idea for the review said the current schools syllabus was skewed towards producing grammarians rather than technocrats to man the country’s industries.
He, therefore, called for a change of mindset that technical and vocational training was for only less ambitious and intellectually challenged students.
Mr. Dei-Tumi recommended the reintroduction of guidance and counselling units in schools to identify the true potential of the children, as well as streamlining TVET programmes scattered all over the country.
The current, syllabus, he explained is too overloaded and as such does not give enough room for the students to develop their full technical potential during the three- year JHS period.
Dr. Afeti made the proposal at a forum on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Accra last Wednesday.
The forum organised by the Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET) themed, “Technical Vocational Training in Ghana, Hope for the Youth, Hope for the future, was aimed at soliciting views from major stakeholders towards charting a new path for TVET.
He said apart from overloading the syllabus, there was no empirical evidence that the vocational subjects that the students flirt with at the JHS level had any strong bearing on their future career choices or further studies at a higher level.
The Chief Inspector stated that a good basic education must provide a solid foundation for a good technical and vocational towards a problem solving approach to learning and conceptual thinking.
Dr. Afeti indicated that the main objective of TVET is to support economic growth and create national wealth for the teeming youth who would complete junior high schools, adding, “We need to focus on technical and vocational education that would not be a mere tool in the hands of the youth but to also have the ability to alleviate poverty and raise living standards”.
The Chief Executive Officer of Future Leaders Group, Emmanuel Dei-Tumi, who supported the idea for the review said the current schools syllabus was skewed towards producing grammarians rather than technocrats to man the country’s industries.
He, therefore, called for a change of mindset that technical and vocational training was for only less ambitious and intellectually challenged students.
Mr. Dei-Tumi recommended the reintroduction of guidance and counselling units in schools to identify the true potential of the children, as well as streamlining TVET programmes scattered all over the country.
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