Industrial Experience. Credit on the salary guide at the time of employment for fully certified industrial arts and vocational education teachers shall be for up to a maximum of five (5) steps at the rate of one (1) year credit for each year of approved industrial experience.
Industrial Experience. Industrial experience is the backbone of education at the technical universities, and this is carried out through internship programmes between the schools, students, and industry players. While some of the institutions that offer internship opportunities to TTU students are government- owned, others are privately owned. For example, Ghana Highway Authority, Feeder Roads, Urban Roads, Ghana Water Company Limited are all government-owned institutions. Asabea Construction Company, LEGNA construction, CENTRAL Impressions, and Jasmore Construction Company are among the private owned-construction companies that hire interns from TTU. The process of matching interns to internships manifests in three ways: companies can request particular students for an internship, the construction department may have MOUs with certain cooperation partners to send interns to them, and/or students can look for a position on their own. To ensure proper coordination concerning the second matching possibility, the university has an industrial liaison office that links up students, the school, and industry players to ensure that every trainee is placed in an appropriate institution for their internship. Students usually spend between six and eight weeks doing the industrial attachment. Some students choose to complete their attachments during the long vacations. HND students complete two internships during their studies. The purpose of an internship is to give students the opportunity to acquire practical knowledge and skills in their chosen career by serving as apprentices to relevant industry players in the field. However, the lack of accommodation, transportation, and financial support pose a challenge to many students who want to complete internships outside their immediate radius. One of the officials provided insight into the state of TTU’s partnerships with foreign institutions. He asserted that: A lecturer at the department also argued that,
Industrial Experience. An appointee as a teacher of shop subject-trades shall be granted salary credit for appropriate industrial experience beyond that required for satisfying the eligibility requirements prescribed in Chancellor’s Regulation C-389 on a year by year basis up to a maximum of ten (10) years. Effective February 1, 1985 a teacher of shop subject-trades shall be granted salary credit for appropriate industrial experience gained within the ten (10) years immediately preceding date of appointment for appointees or date of original license or certificate for substitutes, on a year for year basis, as prescribed in Chancellor’s Regulations C-500 and C-535.
