Nyeri National Polytechnic. [Photo/nation.co.ke]The government through the Ministry of Education plans on increasing the number of vocational training institutions from the current 800 to 1450 to correspond with the number of wards in the country.
Speaking on Wednesday during the signing of a partnership in ICT training between The Management University of Africa and the Indian Institute of Hardware Technology in South C, Vocational Training Principal Secretary Dinah Mwinzi said that the government will increase the number of institutions to cater for the large number of students who fail to make it to the universities.
“The government plans to have vocational training centres in every ward in the country to cater for the huge number of youths who are unable to get in to universities,” Mwinzi said.
The PS further said that the government is committed to ensuring that the young people are equipped with skills that are competitive in the market as envisioned in the new curriculum. Also saying that the new curriculum is talent based.
“We need to give our youths the right skills and that is what the current curriculum changes are geared towards. We want to move from rote learning to competence based learning,” she added.
“We have prowess in sports, music and other curriculum activities which we must harness in order to kill over reliance on only employment.”