The Executive Director of the Council for Technical Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), Dr. Fred Kyei Asamoah, has urged the youth who want to have absolute control of themselves and make it big in life to consider making skills training as their number choice.

According to the COTVET Executive Director, the job market in the global arena has changed drastically, with all attention now focused on skill hands.

He said a decision to acquire skills will not be out of place as those who would be bold to take up such initiative, will never leave to regret the choice they made.

“We would like to urge the youth to consider skills training as their number one choice. Skills acquisition can lead to enormous opportunities on the job market. COTVET would like to assure you that you made the right decision by taking that bold step to learn for life and work”, he noted.

Dr. Asamoah made this observation in a statement released by his outfit, Sunday, to commemorate this year’s World Skills Day (WYSD) celebrations.

COTVET would on Monday, July 15, 2019, join the rest of the world to celebrate Youth Skills Day (WYSD). The United Nations, at its General Assembly in November 2014, declared July 15 as World Youth Skills Day.

The aim of WYSD is to advocate for skills as an important factor to improve young people’s transitions to decent work, and to highlight the crucial role of skilled youth in addressing today’s most challenging global issues.

This year’s theme is “Learning to learn for life and work”.

Dr. Asamoah commenting further on the occasion said “COTVET takes a lot of inspiration from the theme considering the enormous work and reforms it has undertaken to strengthen our various Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions to impart high-quality skills and knowledge unto our youth who are taking the world by storm. In addition, COTVET also launched a campaign dubbed MyTVET, on 12th June 2019. MTV, My Skills, My Future is to help change negative perceptions about TVET in Ghana and increase enrollment in Technical and Vocational Institutions. The overall campaign objective is to inspire world-class excellence in skills development and to introduce the youth to a variety of skilled careers, using tools such as National Skills Competitions, TVET Clubs in Junior High Schools, TVET Ambassadors and Role Models and career guidance and counselling”.

In the month of June, 2019, Ghana was announced by the World Skills International as its 81st member country.

The announcement, according to Dr. Asamoah, was timely since it has afforded the Ghanaian to join the rest of the world to compete on the global job market.

Delegates from Ghana including some of the students who were champions in the Ghana Skills Competitions and World Skills Africa Kigali 2018 competition would be attending this year’s World Skills International Competition in Kazan, Russia.

The event, the world’s biggest skills platform, Dr. Asamoah noted, is expected to boost the morale of the youth as they learn for life and work.

“COTVET strongly believes that the World Skills International’s General Assembly acceptance of Ghana in Kazan will be a turning point in the lives of our youth considering the impact of the exposure at the WorldSkills”, he noted.