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Technology is the main thing today and it is now imperative to embrace technology and technical courses in colleges rather than going for the degrees that purpose you for only official jobs.
During Prof. George Magoha’s time, he had started reducing the craze of university education and, instead, rallied parents towards technical jobs; what was not only affordable but also reducing unemployment pressure around the country. He, sadly, died before realising the full potential of his new dream.
“We must tell our people that every job is important. At TVET institutions, you can develop skills that can address an existing problem in the community and in turn secure employment,” said then CS Education Prof. Magoha on Feb 24, 2022.
Parents should now shun university education which is not only expensive but also wasteful in terms of resources, time and lack of ready job market, especially, for white collar jobs.
In developed nations, people are going to college to learn how to code, design and develop something may it be a a computer, a cloth or a banner. Everything they do rotates around technical practice and this pays because of self-employment or ready job market in technology-based ventures.
In Kenya, things are different but we hope parents will take their children for technical studies in hairdressing, design, fashion and design, plumbing, construction, auto electrician, engineering, electrical jobs and phone/ computer repair studies. These skill pays and has a ready market.
For example, look around and you will notice everyone has a phone which, at some point, will require a repair. Almost everyone is building a home and needs a plumber, electrician or a mason.
