It’s time society appreciated the role of Tvets in education
Students at Mukurweini Technical Training Institute in Nyeri County attend a plumbing lesson on March 3, 2020. The government is betting on TVETs to bring down the high rate of unemployment among the youth in Kenya.
According to the 2020 KCSE exam results, out of the 747,161 candidates who sat the tests, only 143,140 scored grades that could see them join university.
As of last year, there were 106 registered Tvet institutions, which admitted twice the number of students absorbed by universities in 2020/2021.
I was displeased the other day when my friend was forced by his parents to go back to high school because he failed to get a university grade. The course he was offered at a local technical training institute did not sound appealing to his folks.
His parents, like many Kenyans, hold this myth that technical and vocational education and training (Tvet) is for failures.
