PS Esther Thaara Muoria at the International TVET Conference. Photo: Citizen Digital
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Government wants employers to help train TVET students.
Kenya's technical and vocational colleges are to bring employers deeper into how students are trained, the State Department for TVET said at the International TVET Conference 2026, held in Nairobi from September 9 to 11.
TVET Principal Secretary Dr Esther Thaara Muoria described the approach as training "from industry, with industry, for industry". Employers would help write courses, and students would spend more of their training in real workplaces.
"Industry must be more than a recipient of skills. It must be an active partner in shaping them," she said.
Where things stand
Kenya has 33 national polytechnics and 217 technical colleges. According to figures shared at the conference, 11,600 trainers have been trained in competency-based teaching and more than 300 courses have been written or reviewed. A dual training programme, in which 50 to 70 per cent of learning happens at a company, has worked with more than 2,500 firms and over 15,000 young people.
Finland, Germany and South Korea, whose envoys attended, have committed about €28 million to the sector. First-time university and TVET applicants have until September 21 to apply for government funding.
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Kenya’s technical and vocational colleges are to bring employers deeper into how students are trained, the State Department for TVET said at the International TVET Conference 2026, held in Nairobi from September 9 to 11.
TVET Principal Secretary Dr Esther Thaara Muoria described the approach as training “from industry, with industry, for industry”. Employers would help write courses, and students would spend more of their training in real workplaces.
“Industry must be more than a recipient of skills. It must be an active partner in shaping them,” she said.
Where things stand
Kenya has 33 national polytechnics and 217 technical colleges. According to figures shared at the conference, 11,600 trainers have been trained in competency-based teaching and more than 300 courses have been written or reviewed. A dual training programme, in which 50 to 70 per cent of learning happens at a company, has worked with more than 2,500 firms and over 15,000 young people.
Finland, Germany and South Korea, whose envoys attended, have committed about €28 million to the sector. First-time university and TVET applicants have until September 21 to apply for government funding.
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