Let us redeem the jobs going to foreigners by strengthening technical training institutions.
Accounting courses examiner Kasneb has opened a route for students who don’t meet the C+ grade to access university education.
We hope that will not be the trend in other professional fields though.
The number of students enrolled in Kenyan universities has crossed the 600, 000 mark, pouring into the employment market tens of thousands of graduates with liberal arts degrees in a job market that is already saturated.
This is emerging in a period when a large number of foreigners are being shipped in supposedly to provide skills that should ordinarily come from tertiary colleges such as polytechnics.
That there are no skilled people to work on the railway lines, building pipelines and electricity plants over 50 years after independence signals failure in Kenya’s training.
We must drop our insatiable appetite for university education and embrace technical and vocational training in the quest to ease the growing youth unemployment and offer skills that can power the economy.
For a long time, Kenya has more or less neglected its technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions.
Let us redeem the jobs going to foreigners by strengthening technical training institutions.
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