The government intends to equip youths with the requisite skills to enable them to join the existing workforce within the shortest time possible.

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) PS Dr.

Esther Muoria has said this will be achieved through the Competency-Based Education Training (CBET) Modularized Curriculum, where learners will now be assessed in standalone units of competence across all Technical Training Institutions in the country.

The youths will therefore be required to proceed directly to workshops upon arriving at training institutions, so they can avoid being taught basic common units and theory, which usually delay employment. "We want the youths to be trained from one unit to another.