President Nangolo Mbumba says the programmes offered at the Khorixas Vocational Training Centre were carefully selected based on local industry needs and community input.
Dr. Mbumba inaugurated the centre in Khorixas earlier today, the first of its kind in the Kunene Region.
Technical and vocational education and training graduates often face difficulties transitioning to higher learning institutions.
Dry-Genice Higoam and Wilbard Mbenzi emerged as the overall winners of this year's National Skills Competition, which concluded at Ongwediva on Saturday.
Over 90 Namibian students received scholarships to study various related courses in the green hydrogen industry, availed through grant funding from Germany.
Sixty awardees will undertake Master's Degree courses, while 30 will undertake their studies at the local Vocational Training Centres.
The government is constructing more Vocational Training Centres in Kunene, Kavango West, ||Kharas and Oshikoto regions so that more learners could pursue their studies through TVET.
Employees of the Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology have not received their salaries for December.
Workers held a countrywide demonstration to demand their salary payments.
At Arandis, workers marched from the shopping centre to one of the two campuses, at the town.
The Namibia Training Authority (NTA) aims to adopt strict intake criteria to curb the worsening dropout crisis of trainees in its apprenticeship program.
