Two institutions to train 5,000 people in various skills
All is set for the start of the National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) and the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) programme for free training of 5,000 unemployed people across the country in various skills.
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This follows the development of the curriculum for the 10 trade areas under which the training would be carried out.
Trade areas
The trade areas are: dressmaking, general electricals, cookery, plumbing, hairdressing, computer hardware, masonry, aluminium fabrication, tiling and floral decoration.
The Director of the NVTI, Mr Stephen Amponsah, who made this known to the Daily Graphic, explained that under the initiative 500 people from each of the 10 regions would be trained in the various trade areas after which they would be provided with start-up kits to set up their own businesses.
“Before any meaningful curriculum can be used, it should be thoughtfully planned, and that is what we have done so far. We have prepared the 10 trade areas which would also include entrepreneurship and customer service, an area which is not taught in many institutions,” he said.
Provide skills
The government, he said, was committed to reducing unemployment, hence the development of the programme to provide unemployed people with skills.
Mr Amponsah noted that the training which ranged between six and nine months, would be very intensive, adding that “at the end of the training, what somebody could not achieve in two years, the nine months should be able to cater for that.”
Monitoring
He said every step of the training would be monitored to ensure that people who went through it were well equipped.
“Application is done online via www.yea.gov.gh, and it is open until we do the selection.
“NVTI would do the selection and there would be no interviews. The programme favours junior high school, senior high school and university graduates who are unemployed,” he said.
The NVTI director added that “anybody, whether you are a graduate or not is welcome to offer a programme. You can learn something extra to make a living out of it. The government would give the stipends, so it is like a scholarship training.”
According to him, those who enrolled in the programme would get the start-up tools to set up their businesses to help develop small and medium-scale enterprises (SME).