UTAG (COLTEK) pleads with Prez to give assent to Akenten Appiah Menka Bill

The College of Technology Education (COLTEK) Kumasi branch of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has made a passionate appeal to the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to, as a matter of urgency, exercise his constitutional obligation by appending his signature to the Akenten Appiah Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development Bill.

It has noted that his approval would enhance the executive power it deserves to come into full force within the shortest possible time.

Dr. Stephen Baffuor Adjei, Chairman of UTAG-COLTEK, said at a press conference in Kumasi that the Association said the elevation of COLTEK and CAGRIC to fully-fledged autonomous university to provide higher education in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is a giant and historic step taken by the government of Ghana to highlight the relevance of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to national development.

He pledged the Association’s continued support and commitment to the industrialisation agenda of the government, and said it was public knowledge that COLTEK and CAGRIC of the UEW have kept faith with the mandate of training highly qualified technical and vocational teachers and other professionals who currently occupy positions in society.

They promised to demonstrate the support through their professional effort to institute innovative and transformational curricular within the context of competency-based training, learner-centered and problem-based training techniques that are practical and relevant to Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) and in line with the Ghana Harmonised Competency-based Training Pedagogy.

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