•President William Ruto said the move will boost the TVET education sector in the country
•He further noted that this is in keeping with government policy to equip Kenyan youth with practical skills and competencies
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The government will hire an additional 2,000 tutors to be employed in various Technical and Vocational Education Training institutions across the country.
Speaking during the Mashujaa Day celebrations on Friday, President William Ruto said the move will boost the TVET education sector in the country.
He further noted that this is in keeping with government policy to equip Kenyan youth with practical skills and competencies.
“I am also happy to note that we have concluded with the government of china the supply of equipment for another 70 technical training colleges in Kenya,” Ruto said.
“That will ensure that more young people have access to gadgets and tools that will improve their acquisition of knowledge and skills to be able to be job ready as we match forward to the future,” the President added.
Ruto noted that his government had managed to reduce the teacher shortage by hiring more teachers with the Teachers Service Commission having recruited 56,000 teachers in the last one year alone.
“This is the highest recruitment in the history of the commission in one year and the largest such exercise in Kenya’s history. In subsequent years, we commit to recruit even more,” the President said.
This comes barely a week after the State Department for Technical Vocational Education and Training Principal Secretary Esther Muoria said the ministry is working to ensure each constituency in the country gets its TVET institution.
She spoke on Tuesday when she appeared before the National Assembly Education Committee.
Muoria submitted a report on the progress of implementing the recommendations given by the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms.
Muoria said so far, only 52 constituencies out of 290 don't have a TVET institution yet.
The PS said the construction of TVET institutions in each constituency is still ongoing.
"This financial year we were allowed to do 15 institutions. We are on the tail end of advertising those ones. In the next financial year we will do another 15 TVETs," Muoria said.
"Then in the next financial year we will do 20. We are remaining with 52 constituencies to construct. I want to assure you, the process is ongoing," the PS said.
Further, she said the ministry will also work to establish a regional centre of the Kenya School of TVETs in each former province in a bid to equip youth with skills fit for the industry.