Be Bold To Choose Courses In Skills Training - Bismarck Appiah Urges Female Students

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Be Bold To Choose Courses In Skills Training - Bismarck Appiah Urges Female Students

By Adu Gyamfi Odopa

(Odopa2@gmail.com)

Mr Bismarck Appiah, the Bono East Regional Director, Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET) Service, has encouraged female students to be bold in choosing courses in skills training.

He noted that the service focuses on the role of active change agents that will push for equal access to quality education, skills acquisition for women.

The Regional Director indicated that the Ghana TVET Service and the Gender Desk aimed at empowering women inclusion in technical institutions where women are much less enrolled in skills training.

"the TVET will help lessen unemployment, and therefore urged women to avoid intimidations that surround their choice of courses in the educational service" Mr Bismarck Appiah stated.

He said these at this year's celebration of International Women’s Day (IWD) at the Nkoranza Technical Institute (NTI) in the Bono East region.

The celebration was to reaffirm its advocacy to empower girls through TVET, and to highlight the role and importance of change - agent pushing for greater inclusion of women in the TVET Service.

Every year the day puts spotlight on issues related to gender equality and empowerment.

This year's IWD celebration was held on the theme; "inspire for inclusion" aimed at having global narrative on gender equality, manifest in sustainable development, ensuring equal opportunities for women in education, society and the world of work.

According to the Regional Public Relations Officer (PRO) for TVET service, Mayvis Akua Agyei said it is committed in advocating to promote women’s access and opportunities to pursue all educational training and professional prospects, with no prejudice to their gender.

"Productive participation in the dynamic labor markets of today is a potent source of female empowerment, and remains a function of education and relevant skills training" she emphasised.

"With its strong links to employers and the labor market, TVET is ideally placed to address these challenges" the PRO stated.

She expatiated in promoting female labor force participation as a key determinant of which is the promotion of equal education, skilling and training opportunities, in her opinion, not for just a case of enhancing social equity but also economic viability between men and women.

She added, "The potential of empowerment through TVET deserves attention in the regions of the world, essentially, Ghana".

In appreciation, students who benefiting from the TVET service, at the program showed their profound gratitude to the organizers on how the TVET can change their lives.

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