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German agency applauds Ogun for revamping technical, vocational education

By Gbenga Akinfenwa
12 June 2022   |   2:40 am
A German agency, GFA/SKYE has applauded Ogun State government for resuscitating and improving the standard of technical and vocational education and training in the state.

Dapo Abiodun. Photo/facebook/dabiodunmfr

A German agency, GFA/SKYE has applauded Ogun State government for resuscitating and improving the standard of technical and vocational education and training in the state.
 


The agency’s Team Leader, Dirk Londmann, gave the commendation during a courtesy visit to the Special Adviser to the Governor on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), Prof. Joseph
Odemuyiwa, in Abeokuta, said the government has made the sector attractive for the young ones and school leavers.
 
Londmann said the visit was meant to seek ways to further improve communication and understand the programmes of SKYE GIZ, to pave way for seamless engagement with beneficiaries of the government’s programmes.
 
“We are more focused on how the two of us can better synergise in pushing out messages, which will indeed convince German government of your performance and make case for more intervention in the coming days,” he said.
 
Also speaking, Lead Communication Expert of GFA/SKYE, Dominique Thaly, commended the government’s effort at improving the quality and standard of TVET, saying available records showed that extension of the various training beyond the formal to the informal sectors has further enhanced the capacity of artisans, technicians and craftsmen across the state.
 
While appreciating the present administration’s intervention in TVET, Thaly advised that the government should look beyond policy reform, capacity building, and human capital development, and involve
in more social and behavioral engagement with the people.
 
Speaking earlier, Odemuyiwa revealed that before the coming of the Prince Dapo Abiodun-led administration, technical and vocational education in the state was in a sorry state, but the government had since come up with different programmes ranging from capacity building, policy formulation, among others which has translated to the much-desired revamping of the sector.
 
He thanked the agency and other development partners for supporting the government and listed some of the interventions which led to the resuscitation of the sector to include, including over 10 different pieces of training, collaboration with Bureau of Employment Generation, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, training of students meant for industry.

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