Tsito (Volta Region), 8 Dec.,

Mr.. Alex Tetteh-Enyo, Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, has asked second cycle institutions to admit more students wishing to pursue vocational and technical courses. He noted that the tendency to offer a disproportionate percentage of admissions to the pursuit of courses in science and arts is becoming a "Worrying Feature" of the education reforms which needs to be watched. Mr.. Tetteh-Enyo was speaking at the commissioning today of a 76 million-cedis girls' hostel and housemistres' quarters for the Tsito Secondary Technical School built with the assistance of the Japanese government. Mr.. Tetteh-Enyo said the country now require educated people with technical skills capable of transforming the country's vast resources into value-added and marketable services and commodities. He said the mistakes of the past educational regime should therefore not be allowed to creep into the implementation of the education reform programme. Second cycle institutions should educate the encourage students to value vocational and technical training to enable the country to achieve development goals comparable to those of the South-East Asian nations within a short time.

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