Technical and vocational education training institutions in Trans Nzoia County are experiencing acute shortage of tutors hampering implementation of quality training.
According to the county women representative Lilian Siyoi who was peaking in Kitale on Tuesday, the learning institutions are underutilized and she called upon the government to post more instructors to the institutions that saying the institutions had attracted increased number of students following the government’s policy on TVETs enrollment.
Siyoi said the county hosts over thirty institutions including the Kitale national polytechnic saying majority of them lack enough tutors and equipment.
“Our county hosts over thirty technical and vocational training centers and one national polytechnic.
Majority of these institutions are experiencing acute shortage of instructors causing derailment in offering quality training to our youth who have enrolled in large numbers”, she said calling on the government through the relevant authorities to employ instructors.
She added, “Majority of our youth have realized the importance of hands on skills and have enrolled in large numbers to acquire the requisite skills and so shortage of tutors is our greatest undoing.
The Women MP at the same time called on the youth to enroll in the institutions saying with increased population the trends of labour practices have shifted from white collar jobs to skill based driven economy.
On the funding of training facilities, the parliamentarian argued the government to improve facilities in the institutions in a bid to boost training.
By Philemon Kiprop
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