Education

Nairobi, Wednesday August 19th 2014, KNA by Albert Bwana/ Wangari Ndirangu

Government to build 60 mentorship institutions in 60 constituencies

Cabinet Secretary for Education Jacob Kaimenyi has led a consultative meeting on a new program for mentorship technical training institutions (TTI) and vocational colleges in 60 constituencies.

Speaking at the Kenyatta international convention centre during a meeting with members of parliament (MPs) this morning Kaimenyi said that the government will set up mentoring institutions to monitor and advise the TTIs.

The Cabinet secretary also added that the focus of the project is to increase the access of equity mentorship training in Kenya targeting the enrolment of students who will range from 48,000 to 52,000 since they did not attain the  cut marks to  join university.

Kaimenyi also added that the Ministry of Education will partner with the constituencies in order to facilitate the tendering process to cater for the construction of the institutions.

The  CS said that Ministry of Education will fund the construction  to a tune of 40 million while the constituencies will donate10 million and the County Development Fund to 10 million for the establishment of institutions.

“The project is a government project and the government will incur  for the expenditures, hence MPs should support it” said Kaimenyi.

Meanwhile the MPs argued that the procurement tenders are supposed to be given at local constituency level and not in national level as the government claims.

Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Joyce Laboso urged the MPs and the government to partner together in mentoring institutions in the 60 constituencies 

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