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Rethinking purpose of universities, TVETs in AI era
AI now gives us new tools to express that same spirit of ingenuity, and through modern research systems and institutional collaboration, this creative energy can once again be channelled into national transformation.
As Artificial intelligence (AI) transforms economies globally, there is an urgent question Kenya’s universities and technical and vocational education and training institutions (TVETs) must answer: What is their purpose in the era of AI, and in driving our national ambitions toward Vision 2030 and the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda?
For decades, the higher and technical education sector understood its purpose largely through access: how many students we could enrol, how many campuses we could build, and how many graduates we could produce. That focus was right for its time. Expanding access was an act of justice, progress and nation-building.
