Construction work being carried out at the Keetmanshoop Vocational Training Centre is about 89 percent complete.

Construction of the N$103 million Keetmanshoop VTC, funded by the government, commenced in January 2021.

The state-of-the-art building consists of four generic workshops, an administration block, and a dormitory with a capacity of 140 boarders.

The project is expected to be completed by August of this year.

The Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Technology, and Innovation, Natalia |Goagoses who visited the sites, says the construction of the vocational training centre reaffirms the government's commitment to investing in education.

“It's not a small project; this is money that belongs to us Namibians, the money the government also borrowed with the aim of ensuring that the Namibian child receives vocational and technical education at this centre, so we shall have to take that into mind and ensure that this building, at the end of the day, gives Namibians the value of that money, and eventually we will serve the purpose it is constructed for.”

Once operational, the vocational training centre is expected to offer specialised vocational and technology training.

“We do not want to keep on duplicating programmes like they are already offered elsewhere. We would want a centre of specialisation so that this could be the VTC that was offering high-level, specialised. And people can come from other VTCs to come and speak specialised here.”

“This is a very good dream. It will be one of the centres of excellence where we are going to kale advance course, those gaps that were left as was said here when we transform some of our technologies to become fully fledged universities, so this would be the answer,” says NTA TVET Standard Manager, Amon Haufiku.

She urged parents to enrol their children in vocational and technical training.