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The President of the Republic Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday 18 th October 2021 commissioned engineering laboratories and workshops at the Cape Coast Technical University as part of his 2-day working visit to the Central Region.The engineering workshops and laboratories consist of an automotive section a mechanical engineering section which is divided into a welding unit and a fabrication unit a civil engineering section and an electrical and electronic section. The Akufo-Addo Government is upgrading facilities in a number of Technical Universities and Technical Institutes by constructing workshops and installing the equipment for the use of these institutions.It will be recalled that Parliament in March 2018 approved a concessional loan agreement between the Government of Ghana and the EXIM Bank of China for an amount of US119 million to finance The Rehabilitation and Upgrading of Equipment inPolytechnics and Technical Institutes. Subsequently Parliament in July 2018 approved the supplementary contract agreement as well as the commercial contract between the government of Ghana and AVIC International Holding Corporation of China for the implementation of the project.The Ghana-China Project on upgrading and rehabilitation of Technical UniversitiesPolytechnics and Technical Institutes will include two 2 polytechnics eight 8 technical universities and thirteen 13 technical institutes with construction of workshops offices and laboratories.The project is designed to support Governments efforts within the context of developing human capital as well as resolving the key development challenge of the low quality of skills produced by the Technical and Vocational Education and Training sector in the country.
