From Inusa Musah
Nobel Ing. Bismark Amponsah, Executive Director, National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI), has promised to get a hostel for the Tema Industrial Mission (TIM) Vocational Training Institute (VTI). This, he said, follows the large enrolment of the school, where most students from outside Tema attend.
Established in 1981, the TIM VTI has lacked classrooms and other infrastructure and tools and equipment that will facilitate the teaching and learning of vocational skills. With its present enrolment standing at 287, and several of the students coming from outside Tema, Nobel Ing. Amponsah said it is about time the school had a hostel for the students.
His assuring words were in response to the annual report Mr. Joseph Nii Tackie Adams, TIM VTI Center Manager, read at the graduation ceremony of 150 students of the school. Reading his report, Mr. Tackie Adams lamented how the severe lack of infrastructure, tools and equipment had adversely affected teaching and learning.
He said their limited tools and equipment have continued to wear and tear, despite the regular maintenance they carried on them. The reason for the wear and tear, he pointed out, was because the equipment and tools were old. Touching on classrooms and other infrastructure for students and teachers, Mr. Tackie Adams said the school will need huge capital to provide decent accommodation for the students and teachers.
He, consequently, appealed to the NVTI Executive Director to use his office to assist TIM VTI. Receiving loud applause from the students, graduands and parents for his assuring words, Nobel Bismark, who was the Guest of Honour at the ceremony, added that the TIM VTI would benefit from the government’s move to retool and upgrade a number of Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) schools.
The Guest of Honour encouraged parents to enroll their wards in TVET schools “because technical and vocational students have the solutions to our economic challenges. They are making the economies of the developed countries boom.”
Mrs. Linda Adjei, Director at the Vocational Training for Females (VTI) and also the Guest Speaker at the ceremony, added that a nation’s valuable human assets are persons in the technical and vocational institutes. She, thus, diffused the notions of parents and students who have, over the years, considered TVET for students with bad grades or academic performances.
She challenged the graduands to work hard to succeed through genuine means, while they avoided intimidations and discouraging words from their peers. Mrs. Adjei tasked the graduands to go into entrepreneurship in order to reduce the annual unemployment burden on governments.
The 150 graduands from TIM VTI included 71 graduating students of 2014, and 79 graduating students of 2015. They graduated with certificates in various employable trades and skills such as radio and television, catering, fashion, carpentry and joinery, and building and construction.
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