Ministry of education launches national talent training programme
The Ministry of Education has embarked on a nationwide expertise schooling programme aimed at enabling the youth to commercialize their abilities.
The programme initiated by the Division for Article-Instruction and techniques improvement will help determine, produce, develop business and protect that talent.
Under the pilot programme, one particular youth has been determined for each county with strategies to maximize the figures in the coming economic yr.
This emerged when the initially team of the proficient youths started their a person week coaching in Burches Resort in Naivasha.
According to the Schooling Secretary Dr Wanjiru Kariuki, the region had superior but untapped expertise among the youths and that’s why the latest intervention actions.
Wanjiru stated that the principal aim of the programme was to switch the group from work seekers to career creators noting that this was achievable.
“Unemployment continues to be one particular of the major difficulties in this region and this programme will assistance in empowering the youths to be work creators,” she said.
She stated that apart from determining their skills, the section would aid the youths in branding and marketing their talents.
“In the very first phase of this programme, we have recognized prime skills in just about every county and we are keen to mentor this team in advance of trying to find far more youths in the following economical year,” she stated.
Addressing the press at the sidelines of the meeting, the education and learning secretary admitted that the formal sector was not providing lots of work chances like in the past.
She included that under the programme, they would hyperlink up the youths with mentors, financiers and marketplaces as a way of empowering them.
The youths would also be experienced on the challenge of patenting and commercialization incorporating that this would assistance in bettering their livelihoods.
“Once these champions of the counties are as a result of with this schooling, we expect them to produce their abilities and develop into businesses in foreseeable future,” she stated.
On his portion, the director of Technological Education and learning Dr Meshack Opwora admitted that unemployment was a major challenge in the state influencing thousands of youths.
He mentioned that they anticipated the national expertise programme to chip in and handle this as the ministry planned to in long term engage a lot more youths at the sub-county amount.
“We have supplied mentors to discuss to this group and the department is keen on turning all those youths with untapped expertise into foreseeable future business people who will offer task alternatives,” he stated.
