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    "content": "In the rush to grant our young people a generation of diplomas and university degrees, we have gone astray as a nation. Education is good, but education that is good in itself can have the important outcomes that we want. If we just simply rush to get every young person a Bachelors Degree, which is a valueless piece of paper once they have graduated, we are not doing our young people any favors. We are misleading them and our nation will not move forward. We have made this huge mistake by turning all the middle level colleges to universities. There is a certain prestige to that, but quickly, we are realizing that these universities are half-baked. Let us find ways of moving back to having fully-fledged,100 per cent functional polytechnics, which are ten times better than having half-baked universities that cannot produce useful graduates with good qualifications. We really need those polytechnics back. We really need those polytechnics in Kibra which is my constituency, and Lang’ata District where there is no Government youth polytechnic. We used to have the Kenya Science Teachers Training College but it has been taken up by the University of Nairobi. We are losing the teachers who got excellent training in that college to teach science in our primary and secondary schools. We need to revert back to quality polytechnics that offer diploma courses in six, 12 or 18 months in order for our young people to be ready for jobs. Those polytechnics should expose them to practical skills. This is as opposed to four years of bachelor’s degree training with no useful knowledge and skills."
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