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UNEVOC Centre (National Body) since 2015
The Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET) is a national body set up by an Act of Parliament of the Republic of Ghana (Act 718 of 2006) to coordinate and oversee all aspects of Technical and Vocational Education and Training in the country. It is also to formulate national policies on skills development across pre-tertiary and tertiary levels of education, in both the formal and informal sectors.
COTVET is the REGULATOR of the TVET sector. It is not a training provider.
To coordinate and oversee a TVET system that produces globally competitive workforce through quality oriented and demand-driven learning for national development.
Vision
To be a world-class leader in coordinating skills development.
Our major objective is to formulate policies for skills development across the broad spectrum of pre-tertiary and tertiary education, formal, informal and non-formal sectors.
COTVET has been tasked with the following functions:
Sharing knowledge about TVET | Primary focus | ||||
Developing knowledge | Primary focus | ||||
Developing and building capacities | Primary focus | ||||
Teachers | Primary focus | ||||
Researchers | Primary focus | ||||
Policy makers | Primary focus | ||||
Private sector | Primary focus | ||||
Greening of TVET institutions and skills | Interested to lead | |||||
Migration | Interested to contribute | |||||
OER and Online Learning | Interested to contribute | |||||
Equity of access in TVET | Interested to lead | |||||
Gender equality in TVET | Interested to lead | |||||
Fostering entrepreneurship | Interested to contribute | |||||
Industry 4.0 / Smart production | Interested to lead | |||||
Capacity development projects | Highly interested | ||||
Policy oriented projects | Highly interested | ||||
Knowledge development | Highly interested | ||||
Workshops and conferences | Highly interested | ||||
Within my cluster | Highly interested | ||||
With Africa | Highly interested | ||||
With the Arab States | Highly interested | ||||
With Asia and the Pacific | Highly interested | ||||
With Europe, CIS and North America | Highly interested | ||||
With Latin America and the Caribbean | Highly interested | ||||