President Akufo-Addo who said this in a speech read on his behalf  at the 60th Anniversary celebration of Kpando Technical Institute, on  the theme “Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET), a  Response to the Challenge of Youth Unemployment and Skills for  Industrialization”, said a strategic policy document to turn the TVET  Council into a Service was before Cabinet for approval.

He said the Ministry of Education together with the Ministry for  Science and Technology were working on a refined Science, Technology,  Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) cluster of courses into the  educational stream from the basic level, and also the TVET at all  levels.

Mr Isaac Newton Bimpeh, Principal of the Institution, said the  School had grown from 70 students on four courses when it was  established in 1956, into an Institution equipping thousands with  industry-standard skills.

He said the Institution was a support facility to industries in  the area, and would soon be synonymous with the fabrication of  metallic artefacts, courtesy a Development of Skills and Industry  Project, being funded by the African Development Bank. Mr Bimpeh said key among challenges facing the School were  shortage of critical staff, obsolete machines at the workshops,  limited dinning and library space for the 1,500 students, staff  accommodation, bad road networks, and unavailability of a science  laboratory.