Caption: Deputy President William Ruto and Governor Ali Hassan Joho at a past function.
Photo source: www.biggestkaka.co.ke
The debate on whether one needs a university degree to succeed in life has continued to attracted mixed reactions from different leaders and Kenyans at a large.
Deputy President William Ruto has joined the heated argument about academic excellence amidst crack down on leaders with fake academic papers.
Addressing different stakeholders during the opening of the Partnership for Skills in Applied Science, Engineering and Technology (PASET), Ruto emphasized that this nation requires people with technical skills, adding that skills find it hard getting right jobs.
“We simply don’t have enough skilled Kenyans to move up the value chain; even those of us who are skilled often find that our skills don’t match the opportunities on offer,” said Ruto, as quoted by Daily Post.
The deputy president also said that the Kenyan education system has concentrated on university degrees and ignored the technical and vocational training institutions, which is not healthy of the Kenyan economy.
“There is a general tendency in the education sector, as much as in wider society, to pay much attention to university education at the expense of technical and vocational training, even when it is clear that our development and industrialization will be hastened if we did more with our technical and vocational institutions,” Ruto said.
His remarks come after Senator Omar said that the National Super Alliance will not tolerate leaders with fake academic papers especially if Former Vice President Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka rises to power.
“I can assure you that after NASA takes over, forgery will be one of the first matters that will go before our criminal jurisdiction. We cannot condone this,” he said, as quoted by Star.