Accra Aug 27, GNA - Professor Jophus Anamoah-Mensah, the Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Winneba, has called for reforms and re-engineering of Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) as a means of curbing unemployment in the country. He stressed the need for a balance between academic work and vocational development to propel the country’s growth. Prof. Anamoah-Mensah was speaking at the Comfort Ntiamoah-Mensah Memorial Forum on Vocational Training for Females (VTF) at Osu in Accra. The forum was under the theme: Building a Solid Foundation for Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) in Ghana - a Situational Analysis. He said the unemployment rates in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Benin were worrying adding that Ghana stood tall among them with 5.3 per cent unemployment rate.

Source: All Ghana News August 27, 2016 13:52 UTC