CS Education Affirms the Need of Establishing Robust Industrial Linkage
Education Cabinet Secretary (CS) Hon Ezekiel Machogu has affirmed the need for establishing a robust industrial linkage with TVET institutions in order to be able to produce the kind of manpower needed in the industry.
The CS who spoke when he met the senior management of Buildingswerk der Bayerischen Wirtschaft (bbw gGmbH) a Germany based company, the CS noted that it’s by taking TVET institutions to the industry and making sure that they train with and for the industry that they can be able to produce the kind of manpower needed in the industry.
He called on all TVET institutions to ensure that they establish memorandum of understanding (MOU) with numerous industries and ensure that they are training with and for the industry.
He disclosed that nowadays industries are taking the mandate of retraining graduates once they hire them, a role which higher learning institutions ought to have played fully to ensure that the graduates released to the market are fully competent.
The meeting with a Germany based company was informed by an MOU that was signed between the Ministry of Education and the Germany based firm on labour skills mobility.
The firm’s senior management are in Kenya for three days to conduct a sensitization on labour skills mobility to TVET graduates.
The pilot exercise is to be rolled out in Nairobi, Embu, Nyeri, Eldoret and in Baringo where several TVET graduates are to be sensitized on the preselection process on labour skills mobility.
Upon the completion of this exercise, the selected TVET graduates will be able to access employment in Germany.
Principal Secretary State Department for Technical Vocational Education and Training (SD-TVET) Dr. Esther Thaara Muoria called on all TVET graduates to ensure that they learn A1 and A2 German language.
The PS noted that learning Germany language is meant to break the barrier of communication for the youths who wish to work in Germany and at the same time meant to inculcate them into the work culture of Germans. Ministry of Education – Kenyaa
The German delegation was led by Baringo Central Member of Parliament Hon Joshua Kandiee
In attendance was also the Higher Education and Research Principal Secretary Dr. Beatrice Inyangalaa
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