Globally, Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) has been useful in operating industrial enterprise by giving a expert labour force specialized to requirements.

The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2023 predicted that by 2027, twenty-three percent of global employments will go through important changes, with 69 million updated tasks appearing and 83 million current roles being dismissed, causing in a deficit of 14 million jobs.

According to the Ghana Statistical Service, 22.3 per cent of those who experienced unemployment between the first quarter of 2022 and the third quarter of 2023 held tertiary education degrees.
Also, the Association of Ghana Industries have pinpointing the lack of prepared people who have completed a course, study or programme making it difficult for their serviceability, a sentiment resonated by Obi Berko et al, (2021), that workers recognise a space that joins the ability or proficiency by graduates and industry-standard proposing that tertiary educational institution may be incomplete providing learners with serviceable technical proficiency.

Paradigm Shift
These and others have led to growing calls for a paradigm shift in Ghana’s education from predominantly theoretical-based training to a more practical-based one, especially at the tertiary level.

This change is important, as experimental education has demonstrated to be more useful as it is directly connected to entrepreneurship, industrial enterprise, and economic growth.
Advocate keep going that while conceptual comprehension is still crucial, it must be added up to by sufficient practical skills that make students ready to find solutions actual difficulties, inventions and support efficiently to the labour force.
For that reason, for the past years, governments have engaged in measures to renovate TVET and Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Innovation (STEMI), which are looked forward to change our educational area in the direction to entrepreneurship, industrial enterprise and eventually economic growth.

UMaT’s Benefaction
At the organisational level, the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), Tarkwa, has dedicated to giving university-based applied training, developing and building up TVET and STEMI, a plan supported by the university’s goals to become the MIT of Africa and in accordance with the SDG Goals 8 and 9 (Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Youth Employment, Industry and Infrastructure).
This section selects out three TVET schemes, and they are electric vehicle, smart wheelchair, and heavy-duty equipment training, as detailed below:

Directed by a Senior Lecturer in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, Dr Emmnuel Effah, a group of learners have come up with a six-seater multi-purpose electric vehicle, known as the “UMaT EV”.
Some profiles of the vehicle is that, it has a maximum speed of 70 miles per hour (120 km/h) and a battery duration of 11 hours.

As a versatile vehicle, it was brought up to keep an eye on plant and go through mine functioning, support learners with impaired mobility, ease tarmac functioning at the airport, and act as a golf buggy.
Magnificently, the learners used the framework of a tricycle and other elements gotten from a junk yard, a striking example of the resource recovery idea, strengthening the significance of justifiability.
The upcoming section of the training will aim on transforming saloon cars and tricycles, well known as “Pragya,” into Electrical Vehicles, in accordance with UMaT’s dedication to reinforcing technical and vocational training.

These and other TVET schemes show UMaT’s dedication to giving an edification that prime concerns hands-on technical training to improve entrepreneurship and uplift creative finding of solutions to problems for the growth of the nation. The writer is a Business Development Manager and Marketing Communications Specialist. University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa Email: mbremfi@umat.edu.ghl