Students pursuing Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Ghana have been motivated to take pride in their acquisition of technical skills and knowledge in their quest to pursue higher education.

As TVET plays a vital role in equipping individuals with practical skills, enhance employability, and drive economic growth. Students offering such course at various secondary schools in the country have been charged to be boastful with their technical education likewise colleagues at Adisadel College, Holy Child, Mfantsipim, St. Augustine College and the likes.

By promoting pride in technical education, Mr. Rockson Siaw, a Mechanical Engineer with Kaltire Company Limited-Guinea Conakry, as the Operational Manager and a proud old student of Biriwa Technical Institute in the Central Region, offered the encouraging words to technical students in the country.

He asserted this over the weekend at the official launch of the Biriwa Old Students Association (BOSA). An association spearheaded by the school's graduating class of 2003, which aims at rendering support to the institution in whatever capacity it deems fit.

The advise aims to break down stigma and highlight the value of TVET in shaping a skilled workforce.

Mr. Siaw in an interaction with Sompa TV's Eric Annan, appealed on present and successive governments to do its bit to enhance the country's technical education, as he eluded to see no need for Ghana to have Chinese contractors fix its roads and construct its building projects while there are abundance of equally skilled engineers in the country.

President for the BOSA 2003 years group,, Obed Asiedu, eulogized how impactful Biriwa Technical Institute has been in shaping their lives, hence their determined effort to give back to the school through the old students association.

He, however, shared the association's ambition to construct an ultramodern and spacious dinning hall for the school, upon donating 20 executive chairs to the school at the event, with further assurance to assist the institution with its pressing issues that needs urgent redress and attention.

Ms. Theresa Akofa, Vice Principal for Biriwa Technical Institute on the school's infrastructural deficiency, made a passionate plea to other old students to look up to the 2003 year group and come to the aid of their alma mater. Adding that the institution will in December celebrate its 50th anniversary, thus call on all its past students to collectively collaborate and make the celebration a memorable one.

Sompaonline.com//Eric Annan