Plans are underway to increase the number of intakes in Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) institutions to allow more students to acquire technical skills.
Each year, TVETs hold their intake in the months of January, April, and September, but the Mount Kenya West Regional Director for TVETs, Charles Nyota, says there are plans to review the schedule to allow the institutions to accommodate more students as the demand for technical skills continues to increase.
In an interview with KNA, Nyota said that the main goal is to increase the number of trainees from the current 500,000 to one million before the end of the year.
He further said that the enhanced enrolment will mostly target the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education graduates who may not make the cut to join university. "Our yearly intake stands at around 500,000 trainees.
