Operating through my consulting business, Lincoln House TVET Consulting, I have been working for the last 4 months with the Fair River International Association for Development, a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Ghana.  We are working together with a shared objective to improve the standard of TVET qualifications, training, and assessment in the country.  Using my experience in the UK and International vocational education sector I operate as the connection between the UK and the team in Ghana. My experience allows me to connect the project with UK accreditation bodies and training providers as the project requires and offer operational and regulatory knowledge and credentials. 

Working together we have created the Ghana UK TVET Alliance to achieve our goal.  The aim of the project is to identify specific local skills need both to support economic development in Ghana and to equip local people with the skills and recognition they require to aim employment overseas. We are linking international standards to regional industry needs to build qualifications which meet local requirements and offer international recognition.   The Ghana UK TVET Alliance manages curriculum development, the accreditation and regulation of training programmes and training provider approval, inspection and moderation.  

The priority sectors we are targeting first are qualifications and training in the hospitality and construction and fabrication sectors.

Around the world I see opportunities for development in this model, not just taking UK qualifications but building UK and international standards into the local TVET systems as they evolve, and tailoring programmes to meet the needs of local industry and creating a progression routes to further education and employment overseas.