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Lawmakers, Kaimenyi tussle over TTI control

And giving the MPs the responsibility of identifying the parcels of land on which construction will take place and a name for the TTIs, Kaimenyi said, was proof of this good faith.

Construction of the 60 TTIs is planned to start, simultaneously, in October assuming the MPs and Ministry of Education reach common ground; with the government providing 40 million per constituency and each CDF committee Sh10 million.

Construction of the TTIs is intended to boost enrolment in TTIs to 75,000 in order to accommodate those unable to attend university and to bridge the technical skills gap currently being experienced.

“Employers have complained that we lack these skills; especially with the construction boom. The people we have purporting to be electricians, plumbers, are not qualified; they operate more on trial and error. And there’s no reason to shun TTIs, it’s another route to a university degree,” Kaimenyi explained.

Again to bridge this gap, the Acting Director of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Samuel Wanyonyi said, TTIs will be required to continue providing TVET even when upgraded to technical universities. “It will simply mean that they will have the power to confer degrees in addition to certificates and diplomas,” he said.

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