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"speaker_name": "Mr. Muriithi",
"speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Industrialization",
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"content": "I notice that in their recommendations, they have dealt at length with all the sectors. They have spoken about what should be done by the media, security organs, education institutions, politicians and in many spheres of our society. The question of young people and those groupings cut across all sectors. The Report talks about, for example, the need to reform or modernize our curriculum in schooling so that we also talk about social values and civic education. What is the responsibility of the individual, young or old, to the society? I would like to add that, in my view, we should look at the question of competencies. That is because in todayâs corporate world, even in the Government, when we are looking for people to hire, we are not only looking at whether they have gone to school, but we are primarily interested in the issue of competence. Do they have leadership skills? Can they communicate? Can they work in teams? For the competencies, there is no organized way in which the current education system addresses them. If I may just give you an example, my Ministry recently was in the process of recruiting clerical staff. When we put out the advertisements, we had over 50,000 applicants. We had to look for other people - consultants and task teams - to try and narrow on that large number of applicants. The advertisement was for clerical work. When we advertised for the Chief Executive officer of an organization in my Ministry, I think we had over 250 applicants and the minimum qualification â this is a specialized agency â is MBA plus some other technical specialization. Only 250 people applied. So, what am I saying? If you have a pool of 50,000 young people from which to choose from and we had only 50 openings, they all had diplomas, certificates and so on. How do you go about choosing? That is where the question of competencies arises."
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