A CAS has waded to the unfortunate woes of tarmacking educated Kenyans on wrong choice of courses.
The Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) ministry of Education Hassan Noor Hassan has challenged students if they want to have an upper hand in the job market to either try marketable courses or join Technical and Vocational Training Institutions (TVETs) to be self-reliant.
He said that it was wrong for learners to assume that the job market needs only people who have acquired academic degrees terming such a move to have contributed to the current Kenyan high rate of unemployment.
“When we have over supply in humanities and business related courses like we have now in the country then it becomes very challenging for students to have a placement. TVET’s have come up with avenues that students can pursue and find employment in the market place,” said Hassan.
He said although university education is good, but learners can as well make life better through government offered skills in TVET’s.
“Over supply in certain courses has been driving people to streets with placards as a way of marketing themselves and finding employment,” he added.
He noted that the government was keen in ensuring every students gets capitation in such colleges to enable learners have a smooth operation.
The CAS spoke when he officially launched an ultra-modern library at Lukenya University, Mtito-Andei in Makueni County and that is bound to boost literacy levels and research among learners and the community.
Hassan called on students to desist from online insults towards politicians and chatting and instead make use of libraries to advance their knowledge.
At the same time, Syvia Kasanga, a nominated senator and a first mental health champion at the senate and parliamentary level decried an increase in number of girls who have become pregnant during the Covid-19 period.
“During this Covid-19 period it has glared the worst of humanity and we are praying to God we begin to look inwardly into our society. It has been really inhuman actions where boys have also been sodomized and that is where mental health issue comes in. I am happy that soon we will have budgets following the mental health bill because mental health must be discussed openly since uncertainties in future have caused a lot of problems,” he also said.