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ACCRA, GHANA, June 22, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — Right this moment, Ghana Water Initiative (GWI), an SDG-focused (UN Sustainable Growth Purpose) initiative beneath SafeWater, which is a strategic enterprise unit inside Grundfos, has introduced the launch of a brand new CTVET curriculum geared toward bettering expertise and bridging the technical data gaps in water service supply in Ghana.
Developed by GWI in partnership with the Fee for Technical and Vocational Schooling and Coaching (CTVET), International Water Heart, Ghana TVET Service, Secure Water Community, and Cleanearth Scientific, the first-of-its-kind curriculum can be piloted with Ghana TVET Service at St. Paul’s Technical Institute in East Akim Municipal, the primary Technical College established in Ghana in 1957. The programme is anticipated to assist the creation of 1,000 new direct and oblique jobs throughout the nation.
The primary Water Know-how enrolments will begin in the subsequent educational 12 months, divided into two modules, every taking one to 2 educational years to finish relying on the candidates’ degree of schooling, and it’ll then be rolled out to strategic faculties throughout the Southern Zone, the Center Belt, and the Northern Sector to cowl the entire nation.
The curriculum is designed to equip college students with the talents essential to restore and keep essential infrastructure corresponding to water remedy methods, water expertise, and water pumps in rural areas in addition to managing private and non-private water methods, to supply extra dependable entry to wash water for communities throughout the nation.
Xorlali Yao-Kuma Kpodo, Grundfos SafeWater’s Engagement Supervisor commented: “We’re completely satisfied to be setting the tempo and serving to to prepared the ground by launching the very first vocational water coaching programme in Ghana. 8 million Ghanaians shouldn’t have entry to secure consuming water, and that is partly resulting from an absence of water management expertise in the nation. We hope the brand new curriculum will convey us nearer to our ambition of reaching multiple million Ghanaians with entry to wash water by 2025 and encourage anybody obsessed with working in the water sector to enrol – each new and outdated college students in addition to professionals who wish to enhance their data and expertise.”
Eng. Dr. Stephen Turkson, Chief Advisor for technical schooling (CTVET & TVET), has supported the curriculum growth course of and endorsed the rollout of the brand new coaching programme, commenting: “TVET schooling is an engine of financial growth throughout many sectors. Earlier than this curriculum, there was no water-dedicated program in Ghana in any instructional establishment the place a pupil may go and examine to achieve data and a qualification. That is the primary of its sort in Ghana.”
This announcement comes at a time when the Ghanaian Authorities has been stressing the significance of, and investing closely in, TVET schooling as a necessary driver of development and employment in the nation. Final 12 months, the Authorities reported {that a} complete of 120,000 college students had been enrolled in Technical Vocational Schooling and Coaching (TVET) colleges all through Ghana.
Janet Ndugire
Gong Communications
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