The Permanent Secretary of the State Department for TVET, Dr Esther Muoria, launched the modularised curriculum and drums to promote the new training model in the North Eastern region.
Speaking during the sensitisation forum on modularised Competency-Based Education and training (CBET) at Wote Technical Training Institute, the PS said that it’s high time technical institutes started focusing more on skills rather than the certificates acquired in the institution.
“If you acquire a certificate which can not help you in your life, then it’s of no use. In this module, we are talking about earning a living through skills acquired and not carrying papers which can’t help,” Muoria said.
“We will carry this exercise throughout the country. We want to make sure that the students, tutors and the public understand the modular programmer,” Muoria added.
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She noted that they are focused on providing opportunities for trainees to exit and reenter training with recognised industry skills.
“The module will fasten employment through shorter targeted units of competency as opposed to the strainous theory-based units,” she said.
At the event attended by all Eastern region TVET Principals, their deputies, and heads of departments, Muoria thanked national government administrative officers (NGAO) for marketing and supporting TVET programmes and urged them to continue in the same spirit so that many youths could enrol.
She added that with the new module, they have allowed principals to bring skilled people from outside the institution if they can’t get them from within to train the students on skills, adding that the module training starts this May.
By Lydia Ngoolo
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