The Cabinet Secretary for Education Ezekiel Machogu has revealed that the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVETs) institutions have attracted more students as a result of the new government reforms in the education sector.
Machogu said TVETs institutions’ reforms have been aligned with the Bottom–up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA) pioneered by the Kenya Kwanza government aimed to equip learners with skills to fit in the competitive job market and as a result, the enrolment in these institutions has rapidly increased to 320, 000 this year from 92, 000 students in 2018.
The CS said this in a speech read on his behalf by TVETs Principal Secretary Esther Muoria during the TVET principals’ capacity-building workshop at Pride Inn Hotel in Mombasa on Monday.
Machogu said the training being offered in the institutions will help realise a quality and vibrant TVET system which will contribute to social development.
“This workshop whose theme is, ‘Leadership Development and Adaptation to Change in TVET,’ is expected to contribute, enhance knowledge and understanding of rapidly changing occupation, technologies, climate change and greening of the economy,” he said.
He noted that since the presidential education report touched on issues they had raised, TVETs will now help in re-skilling, up-skilling and having lifelong learning to improve youth lives.
At the same time, Muoria urged the principals to guide the new students on how to apply for loans from the Higher Education Loans Board after being placed in their colleges by the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service as well as acquitting themselves with the reforms.
By Vostine Ratemo
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