The Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Department of Vocational and Technical Training has asked form four candidates to change their attitude towards the Technical, Vocational and Education Training (TVET) institutions but instead embrace them as a bridge to their future careers.
The PS, Dinah Mwinzi while speaking at the Kisumu National Polytechnic on Monday called on students, teachers and parents not to be ashamed of joining vocational and technical training institutes.
“Technical institutes should not be viewed as a second option to Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) candidates who sat their examinations and have missed direct entry to universities,” said the Mwinzi.
She stated that parents should be sensitised on the need to engage their children more and have them consider joining polytechnics to get hand-on skills alongside their already acquired academic knowledge to progress in life.
In the just released 2015, KCSE results, only 70,000 out of 525,802 candidates who sat for the examinations are likely to get admissions in public universities.
This comes even as experts warn of the scramble for university degree courses is starving middle-level sectors of much-needed skills.