{"id":203145,"date":"2025-07-24T03:27:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-pelpuo-rallies-support-for-tvet-in-job-creation-drive\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T03:27:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:27:49","slug":"ghana-pelpuo-rallies-support-for-tvet-in-job-creation-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-pelpuo-rallies-support-for-tvet-in-job-creation-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Pelpuo Rallies Support for Tvet in Job Creation Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The Minister for Labour, Jobs and Employment, Dr Abdul-Rashid Hassan Pelpuo, has called for an end to the long-standing stigmatisation of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), describing it as a powerful tool to combat Ghana&#8217;s growing youth unemployment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">&#8220;We must collectively retire the outdated stigma that has long shadowed TVET,&#8221; Dr Pelpuo said at the opening of the 2025 DTI Jobs and Opportunities Fair held at the University of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"90\">The two-day event, themed &#8220;The Career&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507230394.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Labour, Jobs and Employment, Dr Abdul-Rashid Hassan Pelpuo, has called for an end to the long-standing stigmatisation of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), describing it as a powerful tool to combat Ghana&#8217;s growing youth unemployment. &#8220;We must collectively retire the outdated stigma that has long shadowed TVET,&#8221; Dr Pelpuo said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,11743,13716,4508,4509,9679,257,51941,11878,254,6096,20299],"class_list":["post-203145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-creation","tag-drive","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-job","tag-news","tag-pelpuo","tag-rallies","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support","tag-tvet"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}