The Kenya National Qualifications Authority (KNQA) Director General Dr Alice Kande has lauded the standard guideline for coding all qualifications as a game changer in providing an accurate picture for policy, decision-making and developing the provision of skills needed in the country.
Kande, speaking during an online wider stakeholders’ validation workshop for the Kenya National Qualifications Coding Standard (KNQCS), revealed that the development of the policy is in line with the authority’s strategic plan, Kenya Vision 2030 and Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA).
“By embracing a standardized coding system, we will ensure that qualifications are described and understood uniformly, irrespective of their origin. This will foster transparency and trust in educational credentials, thereby boosting student and professional mobility, promoting lifelong learning, and facilitating international collaboration in education and training,” she said.
She urged the stakeholders, drawn from universities, tertiary institutions, professional bodies and government agencies among others, to ensure the policy is well enriched in order to foster greater mobility of students nationally, regionally and globally.
“Your presence today underscores the importance we collectively place in enhancing the quality and relevance of education and training in our country. We appeal to all stakeholders to share their view and input in order to enrich this policy,” she said.
Kande further noted that at the moment qualifications awarding bodies in the education and training sector use different nomenclatures to identify education and training qualifications awarded in the country, which has largely contributed to hampering the mobility of students as well as portability of qualifications nationally and internationally.
She revealed that KNQA is looking to partner with other countries to harmonize regional qualifications frameworks in the IGAD region.
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