Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Migos has appealed to graduates from Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Institutions to seek public funds, utilise their skills, and invest in their lives.
The CS noted that the government is equipping, staffing, and improving infrastructure in institutions to ensure they offer trainees quality and adequate skills to be absorbed in both the formal and informal sectors.
Migos said research has shown that 85 per cent of graduates from TVET get jobs in the formal sector or become self-employed.
He asserted that technical skills are essential for enhancing the country’s industrial and economic growth. He challenged the youth to adopt this motto to hasten the country’s industrial development and create more jobs.
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“TVET is the engine behind the realisation of Vision 2030 and the bottom-up economic transformation agenda”, Migos said after he presided over the inaugural graduation of Riragia Vocational and Training College ( RVTC) in Kitutu Chache North Constituency in Kisii County, where 201 trainees graduated.
The country’s flagship projects, noted the CS, relied on skilled manpower churned out from TVET and implored graduands to be innovative, adaptive, and ready to meet the needs of industries.
He noted that the country was aligning its training programs in TVEts with global trends and industry standards to enable Kenyan skilled manpower to qualify for work in other countries.
“The government has introduced Competence-Based Education Training (CBET) curriculum, which is more practically oriented to prepare graduates for job markets locally and globally,” Migos told the gathering.
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The curriculum, the CS pointed out has been modularized into short examinable and competence Units undertaken between three to four months, adding, they are cheap, demand driven, benefits many trainees, adding 108 modularized programs have been rolled out.
To boost the number of Artisans, the CS said the government has started a Recognition of Prior Learning Program (RPL), where learners are assessed, trained, acquire additional skills, and certified.
“The government, jointly with the African Development Bank (ADB), has supported the training of 1,850 Artisans and is set to get RPL Certificates,” Migos said.
The CS, hosted by Riragia’s Chief Principal, Dr Paul Makori, said the Ministry of Education has partnered with Housing to construct hostels in all TVET colleges to accommodate the increasing number of trainees enrolling in the institutions.
By Emmanuel Gwakoi
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