NATIONAL YOUTH TRAINING AND PLACEMENT BOARD TO BE SET UP
Government is to formalize vocational and apprenticeship training
through the establishment of a body to regulate all activities
concerning vocational training, Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, Eastern
Regional Minister has announced.
The body to be established would be known as the National Youth Training and Placement Board.
Mr
Ofosu Ampofo said Government would increase the number of vocational
institutions in the country to provide options for Junior High School
graduates, who might not gain admission into the Senior High Schools
and the technical schools.
This was contained in a speech read
on behalf of the Regional Minister at the opening ceremony of the Sixth
Biennial Connexional Delegates Conference of the Association of
Methodist Brigades at Oyoko, near Koforidua last Friday.
The
four-day conference was being organised under the theme: “Raising Young
Leaders of Integrity for Sustainable Development of the Church and
Society”.
Mr Ofosu-Ampofo said the programme, which formed part
of the over-all youth development programme of government, would have
District Youth Training and Placement Boards under the auspices of the
District Assembly to oversee the planning and implementation of the
training and placement programmes.
He said the District Boards
would be linked to the National Board through the Regional Boards and
every district would be required to establish and operate at least two
public vocational and technical institutes.
Right Reverend
Fredrick Nnuro, Bishop of the Koforidua Diocese of the Methodist
Church, called for the introduction of African Traditional ethics and
morality in the educational system.
This he said would institute discipline in the training of the youth.
He
advised the youth to be mindful of everything they do because it could
have a repercussion on them in future and urged the youth to devote
themselves to whatever they do.
The Connexional Methodist
Brigade Co-ordinator, Mr Isaac K, Enninful regretted that the lifestyle
of some people in high and responsible positions in society with the
connivance of the mass media is making the youth to believe that they
could attain wealth without hard work.
He said this had resulted in increased immorality, drunkenness and crime, especially internet crime.
Source: GNA
