Institutions of higher learning have been urged to intensify student recruitment and public awareness campaigns to reverse declining enrolment.
MPs have raised concern over a worrying decline in enrolment in TVETs, warning that the government's push to make technical education the backbone of skills development could be under threat.
The Ministry of Education plans to deploy TVET trainers to senior secondary schools to address shortages of teachers for technical subjects under the Competency-Based Education curriculum.
The government should recruit graduates of vocational training institutions to teach technical subjects in senior schools.
urgent reforms in Kenya’s TVET system, citing high fees, modular curriculum challenges, delayed capitation, affecting enrolment, retention, and completion.
KNBS has launched its first nationwide census of TVET institutions since 1963 to collect data on enrolment, staffing and infrastructure for better education planning.