Government intends to place technical education and skills development in Senior High and tertiary institutions at the centre of an industrial revolution in the country. That revolution is imperative if the nation is to make progress towards sustainable development.
President Nana Akufo-Addo believes Ghana must be ambitious to chart a path of an industrial revolution, if the country is to catch up with the prosperity peers during independence, such as Korea, Malaysia now enjoy.
“All those countries in the world that used to be like us, but are now places of prosperity and development, became so because they paid a great deal of attention and committed a lot of resources to the development of their educational system, especially the development of their technical and scientific education.â€
Speaking at a ceremony to climax a two day visit to the Volta Region at the Ho Technical University, the president noted Ghana “cannot continue to be [a] raw material producing and exporting country, depending on the production of unprocessed cocoa or unprocessed gold.
Nana Akufo-Addo noted that there is no future in that for us as a people. “We will continue to be poor if we go down that line. We must make a systematic effort to change the structure of our economy. We cannot do it unless we have people like you primed and ready to assist the process of transformation.â€
The President told the students that the Asempa budget of his administration has factored the need for an industrial revolution and his government would do all it takes to facilitate the training of students, who are the human resource capital of the state, with the  with the required skills to meet the country’s demands.
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