Recording a 2023 TEVET Doubled Enrolment from 49,000 to 80,000
Sesheke
Thursday: 16th November, 2023.
President Hakainde Hichilema is grateful that the New Dawn leadership’s desire to fulfill campaign promises of delivering the provision of skills development to all parts of the country is actualized on clearly demonstrated government interventions that have similarly been extended to the rural and marginalized citizens.
Giving his speech at the commissioning of Sesheke trades training institute a new and state-of-the-art skills training facility, today in Sesheke district, President Hichilema said his government is alive to the fact that skills development significantly contributes to the reduction of un- and underemployment, increased productivity, and improved standards of living.
Mr Hichilema indicated that the awards present a huge opportunity for each student to access skills training to live a decent life and contribute to the economic transformation agenda of the country. He understood it was as a result of the interventions by the new dawn government that the student enrolment in TEVET doubled from 49,000 in 2022 to over 80,000 in 2023.
Mr Hichilema said investing in upskilling or reskilling of the people will result in jobs and wealth creation and ultimately the growth of the national economy therefore it was for this reason that the UPND government has placed premium on prioritizing interventions and strategies that will culminate into enhanced access to equitable quality skills training.
He outlined the interventions that includes; infrastructure development through constructions of new trades training institutes, the construction of polytechnics, and upgrading of lecturer skills. Others are revision of existing and the development of new 3 curricular and upgrading TEVET institutions into centres of excellence
