Milgo Alice Chepkorir

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: Secondly, this County Vocational Education and Training Bill (Senate Bills No. 6 of 2021) is going through the landscape of vocational training. Already we have already met 14 county governments virtually and we are on a way to meeting all counties before the close of business of this Parliament. We shall pass the Bill that speaks to the functions that are domiciled at the county governments. view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: My Committee came up with this Bill based on the fact that Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 4 is speaking to issues of all-inclusive education and leaving no one behind. We realized that despite the fact that there has been free education starting from 2003, we still have children left out after completing Standard 8. Not all who complete Standard 8 join secondary school despite the fact that it is free. view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: Those that completed high school, for example, this year were 747,161. Out of those, 604,021will not qualify to join university education or higher diploma in Technical, Industrial Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training (TVETs). view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: For this case, we realized there was need to develop the vocations training centres to take up this load and develop skills that are important for start-up businesses and self- employment. They will also develop varied careers in construction, healthcare assistance, merchandization, technical such computer, agriculture, machinery, carpentry, automation and such like. view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: We are now in a changing world where the economy is changing more than ever before thus requiring technical skills. As a country, we need to rethink the mission to present students with high skills that will be transferable and apply to the new economy. view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: It is time to invest heavily in technical and creative skills that spur our jobs in the blue economy, which is the new frontier in employment for our youth. This is away from the white-collar jobs that have been there for a long time. view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: It will go a long way in curing unemployment of the graduates form technical institutions because the graduates will not look for employment, but will be found by employment. They will be constantly employed because construction will always be The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: there. We have very many jobs that require such skills and, therefore, employment is guaranteed. view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: This is the reason that the Jubilee Party Government in 2013 came up with a strategy for setting up TVET institutions in every constituency. At the same time, it requested the county governments to fund vocation training centres domiciled in those counties. view
• 14 Jul 2021 in Senate: Furthermore, as I said, this is a new economy and we need to churn job-ready graduates who will have skills in tandem with what is happening worldwide. We need skills to attend to the Big Four Agenda of manufacturing, universal health care, affordable housing, food security as well as vision 2030 and the 17 sustainable development goals of achieving high growth. view