Nakuru East MP David Gikaria wants the government through the ministry of education to thoroughly vet middle level colleges in Nakuru town, which he says are mushrooming at a worrying rate.
Gikaria said that the rate at which middle level colleges are opening up in Nakuru is worrying, saying that the ministry of education needs to vet the colleges to establish if they have the capacity to offer the courses they are advertising.
Speaking at the Kenya Industrial Training Institute in Nakuru town Wednesday morning, Gikaria said that majority of the colleges have taken advantage of the desperate need for education among Kenyan youth to set up business minded colleges without putting the interests of students at heart.
He said that most colleges are ill equipped and cannot handle the courses they purport to offer.
“Every building in Nakuru town has a college or more and the colleges are still coming up each day but the worry is that some of these colleges are just business entities which are out to milk money from Kenyan youth but the kind of education they are offering is sub-standard,” said Gikaria.
“The ministry of education must vet all these colleges and close down all those whose main aim is to make money because we have to protect the Kenyan youth from wasting thousands of shillings for no reason,” he added.