Corey Connelly
THA CHIEF Secretary Farley Augustine believes vocational schooling ought to be given the the same priority as tutorial subjects within the tutoring intention.
He made the statement on September 10 whereas addressing the opening of the National Coaching Company (NTA) and Accreditation Council of Trinidad and Tobago’s (ACTT’s) Tobago pickle of job at D’Collosseum, Crown Level, Tobago.
Augustine, who became a trainer at Speyside Excessive College old to entering politics, acknowledged, “As a extinct educator within the secondary college intention, I if truth be told feel strongly that as a society we now enjoy got to prioritise vocational schooling.
“In actual fact, I deem there needs to be a parallel intention with parallel significance between old faculty lecturers and vocational schooling. And the automobile to function that is throughout the NTA, which is willing to permit us to place a powerful more revolutionary society.”
He acknowledged in Tobago, there could be pressing need for workers with particular technical skills.
“We construct look and skills moderately ceaselessly the gaps when it involves highly licensed technical workers within the station, and throughout the work of the NTA we’re in a pickle to affirm our inhabitants as much as the stamp.”
Augustine informed the viewers he critically liked the NTA’s programme, which seeks to certify expert workers who, for one reason or but any other, did no longer battle throughout the formal intention to function their skills.