PS Ketty Lamaro flagging off a TVET Experts at MoE&S
A team of Technical, Vocational Education and Training –TVET instructors mainly made up of principals from TVET institutions has been flagged off by the Ministry of Education and Sports to benchmark on Kenya’s skilling program.
According to the Ministry, Kenya is one of the countries in the region that has advanced in the skilling sector.
Ketty Lamaro, the Permanent Secretary ministry of education explains that benchmarking with Kenya is an opportunity for the country on its journey to skilling the youths as the country is determined to skill its youths for employment opportunities.
Enabel, a Belgian Development Agency that supports the skilling Uganda program under the ministry of education and sports is to invest over 150 million shillings in this study tour program.
Ham Lukulwe, the sector expert at Enabel says that their aim is to ensure that the capacity of the TVET Institutions is enhanced to become centers of excellence.
Lukulwe says that according to their findings Kenya has advanced in most of the skilling areas yet it does not use confiscated approaches. He cites areas like management, assessment programs, coordination with the industry which the local institutions in Uganda still lack and can use this opportunity to learn and implement for better.
Eddy Turyatemba, the assistant commissioner in charge of vocational education and training says the systems used in the vocational education training in Kenya are far advanced compared to Uganda and the team is expected to observe, learn and later come back to Implement for excellency.
The team sent from five institutions of Kasese Youth Polytechnic, St Joseph’s VTI Virika, St Simon Peters’ Vocational Training College Hoima, Millennium Business School and Uganda Technical College Kyema will be visiting Rift Valley Technical Institute in Nakuru, Eldoret National Polytechnic, and Bomas of Kenya in Nairobi.
Dickens Olwoch, the Principal Kasese Youth Polytechnic says issues of up skilling staff, optimum use of available machines, and management practices are still lacking in his institute.
He explains that as the institute cries for not having enough machines, they feel that even the available machines may not be out to their maximum usage, and benchmarking in this area as well may help them put the machines to better use.
Christopher Isingoma, from Millennium Business School in Hoima, says they are looking at areas like curriculum how they develop it to suit their needs, integration of ICT in the skilling learning process, and then how Kenya is managing with the private sector to come up with the market demand-driven vocational and also train the students.
Edson Mirembe, the Principal St Joseph’s Vocational Virika in Fort portal says that as an institute they will want to see the standards, training approaches, curriculum development, and the management, training of staff to have competencies enabling them to train the students.
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