KITI urges TVETs to align training with industry to close skills gap
Key points
- KITI is urging TVET institutions to align training with real industry demand.
- Modern methods and equipment are needed to close Kenya’s skills gap.
- Employers still report graduates who need heavy on-the-job retraining.
Certificates without competence are expensive wallpaper. KBC reports that KITI urges TVETs to align training with industry to close the skills gap, calling for urgent embrace of modern training approaches.
Kenya’s manufacturing, construction and digital services need welders, mechatronics techs, culinary pros and logistics clerks who can work day one. When curricula lag machines by a decade, factories import skills or stay small.
What alignment means
Industry advisory boards with power, dual training/apprenticeships, updated equipment, and instructors who retrain yearly. County polytechnics need power and internet as much as new banners.
Parents should value TVET pathways equal to university prestige — the labour market already does on many pay scales.
Policy link
Free university promises and instant KUCCPS portals must not starve TVET budgets. A first-world skill mix is a pyramid, not a single peak.
Education contacts: directory.
Based on KBC reporting of KITI’s public call to TVET institutions.