Ministry of Education launches UNESCO TVET training policies and manuals – Kenya News Agency
The government has built technical and vocational education (TVET) institutions across the country to promote access and equity for students seeking vocational skills.
Principal Secretary (PS), State Department of Vocational and Technical Training (VTT) (PS) Dr Margaret Mwakima said the government has established 26 centers of TVET colleges and national polytechnics by putting focus on the skills required in the regions where the institutions are located.
Speaking at a hotel in Nairobi, during the celebrations of World Youth Skills Day (WYDD) 2021, where UNESCO’s TVET training policies and manuals were also officially launched, the PS said that the government had channeled enormous resources for building more TVET institutions, state-of-the-art training facilities and recruiting more trainers.
“To deepen access to TVET training, plans are underway to bring together TVET institutions to have a national polytechnic institute in each county, a vocational technical college in each sub-county or district and a center. vocational training in each neighborhood, â€she said. mentionned.
Chief Administrative Secretary of Education (CAS) Hassan Noor Hassan said TVET institutions have been equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and qualified trainers so that trainees can receive quality training and skills relevant.
Noor said the initiative has made positive changes and increased the number of enrollments in institutions among students who complete secondary education.
“In 2019, around 1,500 students who took the Kenya Secondary School Certificate Examination (KCPE) and were placed in various university study programs chose to enroll in TVET,†he said. Noor said, adding that the number had risen to a total of 2,632 applicants. in 2020.
CAS made the remarks today in a speech read on its behalf by the Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS), Planning, Eric Wafukho.
“Today’s events provide a unique opportunity for young people to engage in dialogue between technical and vocational education and training (TVET) organizations, employers, workers, policy makers and development partners,†said added the CAS.
The event whose theme is “Reinventing the skills of young people for the present and the future” and organized by the Ministry of Education in partnership with UNESCO-UNEVOC, is a special day set aside by the United Nations to raise awareness of the importance of developing relevant skills required by young people for the labor market and work independent.
Kenya is currently a member of the famous World Skills International, an organization which organizes the World Skills Competition.
TVET Board Chairman Professor Ahmed Ferej said the TVET Authority has always expressed its commitment to the TVET sub-sector as reflected in national policy on education and training.
“As a sector, we have adopted and adopted skills-based education and training (CBET) as a guiding principle of Kenya’s TVET ecosystem and the system requires all stakeholders to work collaboratively to develop and implement CBET, â€he said.
TVETA has developed the training standards and guidelines for implementing CBET and the goal of CBET is to establish professional standards that can be measured.
The CEO and Director General of the TVET Authority, Dr Kipkirui Langat, said that the Authority has developed training standards, accredited TVET institutions and continuously undertakes quality audits of accredited institutions for s ” ensure that training standards are continuously improved.
“The Authority is one of five UNEVOC centers in Kenya which are required to provide knowledge sharing forums with national and regional institutions and best practices in TVET around the world,†he said.
In her remarks, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Eldoret, Professor Teresa Akenga, said that the University of Eldoret celebrates the resilience and creativity shown by young Kenyans during the Covid-19 despite the significant challenges faced by TVET institutions.
By Hamdi Mohamud