The Deputy Minister in charge of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), Professor Kingsley Nyarko, has appealed to stakehold­ers within technical education and training space to help ensure that government's in­vestment in the sector does not go to waste.

He said TVET remained the very founda­tion for job creation in the country and until it was strengthened, all efforts to address the unemployment situation in the country would yield little or no results. "Government over the last seven or so years have invested heavily in the TVET with view of building a solid foundation for technical education in the country.

We must all play our part to ensure that these investments yield the desired results for the development of our country, "he said.

Professor Nyarko made the appeal when he paid a working visit to a number of TVET institutions in Accra, last Friday.

The visit was to interact with both man­agers and tutors in these TVET institutions and also assess the progress of work being undertaken by the government in this insti­tutions.

He said while government was happy to have more than tripled student enrollment in TVET, it was equally important for teachers and managers of these institutions to help develop the skills of these students.

Professor Nyarko said with a highly tech­nically skilled population, unemployment could be reduced to the barest minimum in the country. "Indeed, the powerful and rich countries we yearn to go all became what they are today because of TVET and we can't do otherwise than to go same way," he added.

He said beyond government investing in transforming the entire TVET space in terms of improvement in infrastructure and training laboratories, conditions of service of teachers in that space remained a priority.

The Director General, Complementary Education, Mrs Kathryn A.

Pinkorang, said a lot of reforms aimed at positioning TVET as the centre of skills development.  BY CLIFF EKUFUL