The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) could be soon sending students to polytechnics.
Outgoing Principal Secretary for Technical Vocational and Educational Training (TVET), Dr. Dina Mwinzi, disclosed that KUCCPS is working on structures to ensure the roll-out.
"As an outgoing PS, I want to believe that KUCCPS has plans to incorporate the enrollment to polytechnics," she said.
Dr. Mwinzi was speaking on Tuesday afternoon the launch of Koshin Technical Training Institute in Tembelio, Moiben Sub-County in Uasin Gishu County.
The PS said that the government has spent a lot of money investing and establishing TVET institutions.
For this reason, she said, KUCCPS' plan to send students to TVET institutions will be sublime to ensure that government institutions are well utilized.
At the moment, new Technical Institutes which were started by Jubilee Government, targetting at least one in each constituency, still grapple with challenges of enrolment numbers. Most of them still have low intakes.
Uasin Gishu senator Prof Margaret Kamar also challenged parents to send their children to polys.
The County Government of Uasin Gishu has been sponsoring 600 youth at Rift Valley Technical Training Institute, each year, having a total of 1800 sponsored youth in the past four years.
Governor Mandago says he rolled out the sponsorship program because he wants the future road and other engineers of big projects to be locals.
"At the moment, big infrastructural projects are being awarded to big foreign companies, but I want to turn around this," said Mandago.
"In the next few years, I want to see builders of our roads being our youth. We want to make great contractors from these boys and girls," he added.
Rafiki Ya Maisha Foundation and friends, in collaboration with the Embassy of France in Kenya, funded the Koshin TTI.
The national government has equipped the institute with equipment and machines of up to Ksh 200 million.
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