TVET institutions to establish German-style dual vocational training system by 2022

Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions across the country will start, from 2022, the implementation of dual vocational training similar to what is being organized in Germany.

This follows several state-sponsored observation trips to study the German model of TVET, which merges a compulsory work placement with the theoretical training of students at school.

The German TVET model merges a compulsory internship in a company with the theoretical training that students receive at school.

In a brief inauguration ceremony of the new board of directors of the Technical and Vocational Education and Training Commission, Education Minister Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum instructed members to ensure the deployment of the work-study vocational training system by the next academic year.

“We need to start looking at creating internship programs to take students out of classrooms and put them in the realm of work,” he said.

He went on to say: “your task is to ensure that the German dual TVET system that we have been experimenting with is finally implemented in this country”.

The delay in the implementation of the dual training system is despite a five-year strategic policy of the TVET Commission, which requires implementation in Ghanaian TVET institutions.

But in an exclusive interview with Joy News on the sidelines of the inauguration of the C-TVET Board of Directors, the Director General of the TVET Commission, Dr Fred Kyei Asamoah, said the commission was working to start the deployment by 2022.

“So we started the first work to deploy the dual system. The program is being finalized with the help of industry.

“At the moment, we are recording companies that will be on the program to receive students,” said Dr. Kyei Asamoah.