Technical Vocational and Education Training (TVETs) and Teacher Training Institutions (TTI) which share the same locality will henceforth share training equipment in a bid to help teachers get the technical skills and know how to implement the Competency-Based Curriculum in TTIs.
While speaking in Mombasa on Monday, during the opening of a four-day annual conference for members of the Kenya Teachers’ Colleges Principals Association, the Principal Secretary for TVETs Esther Muoria said the Ministry of Education through her department will soon map out all the TVETs and teacher training institutions located in the same area to implement the directive.
“We are going to partner with teacher training colleges as TVETs so that we can be able to use the equipment we have in our institutions together,
“We will help our teachers to get the technical skills and know how to implement the CBC curriculum because we have the equipment in our TVET institutions,” Muoria said.
So far, 154 TVET institutions in the country have been equipped with the latest machines to boost the skills of learners.
The PS said the institutions are now expected to produce graduates with hands-on experience and the requisite set of technical skills to meet labour and industrial demands.
“We want to move away from theory teaching to practical teaching in our TVET institutions. Our very able Education CS Ezekiel Machogu said we should reduce business courses and encourage more Stem courses in TVET institutions and technical training colleges,
“The skills will be taught mostly in the stem courses because we want to industrialise this country and we can only achieve this if we have technical courses being upraised.” She said.
By Vostine Ratemo
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