The Education ministry will dissolve in the next one week all the councils and boards on management of Technical, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training (TVET) institutions that are involved in mismanagement of public resources, Cabinet secretary Fred Matiang’i has said.
He spoke on Friday when the CS, together with the Principal Secretary in charge of Vocational and Technical Training in the ministry Dr Dinah Mwizi addressed the vice chancellors of technical universities, principals, chairpersons of the council and chairpersons of boards of governors of all TVET institutions at Kenya Technical Training College in Nairobi.
He told the TVET heads that the government has invested heavily in the institutions and will continue allocating resources, adding that all these investment will be meaningless if they are not put into proper use.
Mwinzi said the government has established a programme that will allow the National Youth Service (NYS) recruits get admission to TVET institutions to learn artisan and other diploma courses offered at the institutions.
However, the PS expressed concerns over low enrolment in those institutions despite the massive goodwill and funds that have been allocated by the government in the recent past. She challenged the institution officials to come up with market-driven courses as one way of making the colleges marketable.
“As a ministry we will do everything to assist you. For instance, we are working with other State departments like NYS who have agreed to train their recruits at our technical training institutions to learn skills in artisan and diploma courses that are relevant to the market,” said Dr Mwinzi.
“This year 2, 480 NYS recruits will be admitted in your institutions to study craft and diploma courses in mechanical, engineering and other marketable departments. For this arrangement to continue, you must provide value for the money invested,” she added.
The National Construction Authority has also set aside Sh1.2 million every year to have their students trained in different courses at the TVET. The VCs, principals of colleges, council and boards of management used the function to raise a number of challenges they are facing.
Some said they are unable to engage with the private sector to raise funds and also create internship partnership with the job market while others said their institutions are inaccessible and asked for government grants to construct hostels and roads as one way of making them markable.
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