By: Justus Anzaya
The Government is set to roll out textile and apparel skills enhancement program in 15 TVET institutions across the country with the aim an aim of solving youth unemployment.
Disclosing this, the Principal Secretary State Department for TVET Dr. Esther Thaara Muoria, noted that the textile and apparel skills enhancement program targets to reduce TVET wastage rate by ensuring the youths are trained in specific skill area and with key competencies for the shortest time possible.
The PS said that the State Department for Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is breaking the curricular into micro-credentials to ensure that a trainer gets absolute training in a specific skill area to be able to graduate within the shortest time possible so that the trainer can venture into employment of entrepreneurship.
Speaking during a consultative forum with TVET Principals drawn from 15 TVET institutions ac ross the country, Dr. Muoria said that the textile and apparel skills enhancement program will be piloted in the 15 TVET institutions; Tetu Technical and Vocational College, Kenya Coast National Polytechnic, Kisii National Polytechnic, Belgut Technical Training Institute, the Rift Valley National Polytechnic, the Sigalagala National Polytechnic, Kibra TVC, Nkabune TTI, Nyeri National Polytechnic, Maasa National Polytechnic, the Kisumu National Polytechnic, Nairobi National Polytechnic, Tharaka TVC and Karen Technical Training Institute for the Deaf.
Dr. Muoria disclosed that despite the available job opportunities in the textile and apparel industry, there is a huge skills gap in the sector adding that the State Department for Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is partnering with Sainath Education Institute to ensure that the youth are absolutely trained in fashion and design to be able to take up the available jobs in the textile and apparel sector.
The TVET Principal Secretary further noted that the textile and apparel skills enhancement program is targeted at ensuring that the various textile and apparel industries that are seeking to employ Kenyans in this sector have ready and competently skilled workforce to employ.
PS Muoria added that this training is angled at solving the skills gap demand in Export Processing Zones (EPZ), Special Economic Zones (SEZ) among other textile and apparel industries investors operating in the country.
The textile and apparel skills enhancement program is also aimed at upskilling of fashion and design trainers in TVET institutions and also exposing the TVET fashion and design trainers to the state-of-the-art equipment.
The implementation of the textile and apparel skills enhancement program is set to kick off at the end of March in Nairobi and Mombasa and later spread in other regions across the country.
PS Muoria also said that the State Department for TVET is recrafting the Competency-Based Education and Training (CBET) curriculum into core units of competencies for employability implementable with six to eight months.
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