At the 2025 TVET Pitso forum in Botswana, Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu presented Ghana’s remarkable overhaul of its Technical and Vocational Education and Training system as a blueprint for Africa.
Sharing the stage with President Duma Boko of Botswana, he outlined Ghana’s leap in TVET enrolment from 42,000 in 2018 to over 235,000 in 2024, attributing it to strategic reforms and industry partnerships.
Key initiatives include three specialised technical universities—Digital Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, and Applied Healthcare Sciences—and new regulatory bodies under the Education Regulatory Bodies Act 2020, which created CTVET and Sector Skills Bodies to align curricula with market needs. The Pre‑Tertiary Education Act 2020 further consolidated oversight through the Ghana TVET Service, ensuring demand‑driven, competency‑based training.
Minister Iddrisu urged fellow African nations to emulate Ghana’s model, stressing TVET’s central role in industrialisation and job creation. He called for continental collaboration—financial, technical, and policy—to reshape negative perceptions of vocational training and promote gender inclusion in emerging industries. Ghana’s TVET transformation, he argued, offers a scalable template for empowering youth and powering Africa’s economic future.
