The Director-General of the Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET), Mr Zakaria Sulemana, has emphasised the importance of prioritising environmental sustainability, green innovation, and digital transformation in TVET institutions to meet the demands of the 21st century.
He highlighted the need for TVET to evolve to equip learners with relevant, industry-driven skills that empower them to drive change within their communities and beyond.
Mr Sulemana stressed that environmental sustainability should be embedded across all curricula in technical universities and vocational institutions.
He pointed out that it is not sufficient to teach only theoretically, but students must also engage in hands-on learning, focusing on creation and innovation within the framework of sustainable development.
His address was delivered on his behalf by the Deputy Director-General of CTVET, Mr Abdul-Rahaman Zakaria, during the official launch of the Kumasi Technical University (KsTU) Institute of Research, Innovation, and Development (IRID)’s National Quiz on Garbage Sorting and Environmental Sustainability.
This competition is part of KsTU’s IRID and CTVET’s Ghana Skills Development Fund (GSDF) 2025 Garbage Sorting Project, and it will involve participation from 34 Senior High Schools in the Ashanti Region.
Professor Smart Sarpong, Director of KsTU IRID, at the event explained that the initiative is aimed at inculcating into the people through the competition as to how to embrace the importance of separating waste to benefit their colleagues, households and the environment at the youngest age.
According to him, the project started at the region and would extend nationwide very soon for the participants to apply their knowledge on how to turn waste to wealth.
He disclosed that stakeholders including Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) continue collaboration city- wide with the Municipalities, Districts Assemblies working to create clean environment, with Chiefs and students as solution bearers, because Ghana needs their creativity with the conviction of shaping the cleaner Kumasi.
The Station Manager, Akoma FM, a subsidiary of Media General, Ransford Nana Osei Asare, noted that the station’s decision to partner IRID on the Garbage Sorting Project forms direct vision of the station.
He assured of the station’s commitment in ensuring total change in society when it comes to waste.
Nana Osei Asare urged participating schools not to see the quiz as competition but rather avenue to learn and impact their society.
