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"content": "TVET has engaged with the county governments and other stakeholders in the development of TVET in the following ways- (a) The Authority has developed services through the establishment of four regional offices; Coast, North Rift, Western and Mount Kenya regions. (b) They have co-opted a representative from the CoG to the TVETA Board to articulate issues of vocational training. (c) There has been organised two regional stakeholder fora annually to share quality assurance reports with VTC managers and county directors of vocational training. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "(d) Periodic training of VTC trainers and managers on quality assurance and governance issues."
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"content": "(e)TVETA trains 400 trainers in internal quality assurance annually. (f) Licensing of trainers is utilised at all levels, both national and county. (g) Together with the development of partners, ILO, we have assisted in developing strategic plans for all VTCs in the three counties of Narok, Kajiado and Nakuru. (h) Together with the development partners known as, “No One Out”, TVETA did capacity building for 180 managers of VTCs from 180 centres, where 540 board members, three from each of the centres, were trained. (i) They have conducted periodic quality audits VTCs to ensure compliance and provide advice on continuous improvement. (j) There has been an engagement of county governments as the stakeholders during standard developments. These include guidelines and standards on CBET, recognition of prior learning policies, trainers' qualification framework, national polytechnics requirements and guidelines, Open Distance and e-learning (ODel), centres of excellence, CBET assessment centres, competency-based assessment tools, recognition and equation of TVET qualification and industrial attachment."
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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, to the second part of that question, there are 1,156 Vocational Training Centres (VTCs) across all the 47 counties in Kenya, with a total enrolment of 141,157 trainees. These institutions are strategically located in villages to ensure that the youth can conveniently access skills training while residing at home. Recognising the needs of trainees from far-flung areas, some VTCs, particularly those situated in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) and urban centres, have established accommodation facilities. These facilities help to bridge the gap for learners who would otherwise face challenges in accessing training due to distance. As a Ministry, we also explore ways to enhance student accommodation in VTCs, particularly in areas where demand exceed available facilities. The Government, in collaboration with development partners such as the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the German Development Bank (KfW), is actively investing in the infrastructural development of tertiary institutions. Additionally, funding is being sourced from the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG- CDF) and contributions from local communities surrounding these institutions. To further address the shortage of student accommodation in tertiary institutions, the Government is engaging private investors, through structured Public-Private Partnership (PPP) processes. Through this, the Government encourages potential investors with interest in developing accommodation facilities within tertiary institutions to make such investments. We have taken measures such as encouraging institutions with land to enter into collaborative partnerships with private investors through which the private investors develop accommodation facilities for use by students. (c) It is indeed true that conditional grants offer both levels of Government an opportunity to fund under-resourced services or infrastructure such as water supply and sewerage systems. Water and sanitation are a devolved function. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "Noting how important these services are to the effective functioning of TVET institutions, we are committed to work together with specific county governments to seek conditional grants that will support them. This will be especially key in areas around universities and TVETs with high student enrolment that has placed pressure on existing resources. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I submit."
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"content": " Any supplementary questions? Proceed, Sen. Mumma."
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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have some. Could the Cabinet Secretary indicate whether the Ministry of Education has any collaborative working relations with the State Department for Housing at the national level to ensure part of the housing development units for tertiary institutions, to provide accommodation for students given that these are the most vulnerable individuals who need housing? Secondly, does the Ministry have a record of the number of students who are not taken up by the universities? How many are taken up by VCTs and TVET institutions? Do you have the percentage, so that we are able to account to Kenyans how much we are absorbing or providing some kind of skills training to the high percentage of learners who do not make it to university?"
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"content": " Hon. Cabinet Secretary, proceed to answer."
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"content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I can confirm that we have collaborative working agreements with the national Government, through the Ministry of Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development, to provide accommodation to tertiary institution students using the Housing Levy through the Affordable Housing Programme (AHP). Indeed, in the last month, there was an advertisement on a number of housing accommodation units to our tertiary and VTCs. I do not have the exact number here, but we are working with them and they agreed that they will assist in providing hostels to our institutions using money from that Fund. Those institutions include universities and tertiary institutions which include TVETs. That will help increase the number of enrolment that we get to those institutions because accommodation is crucial. In terms of the number of students that we are putting through TVETs, I will just use the example of last year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) Examination. We had 25 per cent of students who got C+ (Plus) and above. That means about 75 per cent got below C+ (Plus). The 25 per cent were about 246,000 students. The number of students who sat for KCSE examinations last year were about 965,000. Therefore, we have about 750,000 students who are supposed to go to VTCs and TVETs. When we opened the TVETs portal, about 8,000 students who qualified to go to university elected to go to TVETs. I do not have the actual numbers that have been enrolled to join TVETs this year, but we can provide details in writing, so that I do not give a figure that is incorrect. However, we are doing something about it."
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