By Michael Oduor – Taita Taveta
The Technical and Vocational Education and Training Authority (TVETA) department is undertaking a quality audit exercise of Vocational Training Centres (VTCs) in Taita Taveta County.
Speaking on Monday at Mwagafwa VTC in Wundanyi, the TVETA Compliance Enforcement Deputy Director Josephine Kasera said the move is aimed at indicating quality and standard of training.
She said the authority will be looking into the leadership, physical resources, governance and management and human resource.
Other key training areas to be looked into are innovation, entrepreneurship and collaboration, training delivery, program evaluation, trainees support, and co-curricular activities
“This exercise will ultimately assist the authority to identify challenges facing the training sector to ensure that the government’s efforts in transforming technical training are fruitful”, She said.
“We acknowledge the support from the national government that has seen more than 28 VTCs in our county offer quality training, added the County Director for Vocational Training Mr. Raphael Chola as he welcomed the move.
He added that they will ensure necessary action is taken for the betterment of the institutions where mistakes have been noted.
Chola further urged the government to develop a scheme of service that can be used by counties to employ instructors in grade 1 and 2 as the current scheme being relied on is from the national government.
Earlier, the team joined officials from the Ministry of Education led by Chief Administrative Secretary Hassan Noor and Principal Secretary State Department of Vocational and Technical Training Dr. Margaret Mwakima on a visit to Wumingu Technical & Vocational College.
The team said the national government has set aside funds to construct boys’ and girls’ hostels.
They urged the County government and the Wundanyi Member of Parliament office to construct a staff quarters.
