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Technical education key to development - VC
In a broadcast interview, Prof. Appiah said the difference between Ghana and other developed nation is the importance they attach to technical education, citing Germany to back his claim.
He also defused the claim that technical education is for weak students, saying it is a medium to train and impact skills in students to become business-oriented and tackling unemployment in Ghana.
“If you go to Germany – that is the model that we are applying – they have universities of applied sciences and [they are] basically based on technical education, because you cannot train people with just the theory and they cannot marry it with practicals and so that is exactly what we are doing here in Sunyani Technical University," he told Accra-based Class FM.
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He added: "We give you the theory, we blend it with the practicals, so that as soon as you finish you will be able to be employed in industry directly because you would have acquired the skills to work.
“Technical education is not for the weak... The point is that if you want to develop a nation, it is based on technical education."
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