[kictanet] PRESENTATION AT JACARANDA HOTEL ON CHALLENGES AND CONSTRAINTS FACING YOUTH POLYTECHNICS

[Margaret Wanjiru]

  PRESENTATION AT JACARANDA HOTEL ON CHALLENGES AND CONSTRAINTS FACING YOUTH POLYTECNICS
   
  Youth Polytechnics are basic education institutions intended to offer primary school leavers opportunities to acquire quality skills and knowledge to make them employable while at the same time, providing avenues and paths for attaining higher education through technical and vocational education system.
   
  They also equip the youth with technical and entrepreneurial skills based on appropriate technology enabling them unleash their entrepreneurial capacity to fully exploit local community resources for employment creation.
   
  KENYAN YOUTH
  
   The Kenya      National Youth policy defines youth as persons moving from childhood to      adulthood aged between 15 and 30 year. This group accounts for about 32%      if the population, and forms about 60% of the total active labour force      and the largest source of human resource for development.
   
  
   The 15 to 18      year old include primary school leaves numbering 275,000 per year who do      not proceed to secondary schools.
   
  
   The 18 years      olds include secondary school leavers who though employable have no skills      for the job market and therefore remain unemployed.
   
  CHALLENGES AND CONSTRAINTS FACING THE YOUTH POLYTECHNIC SECTOR.
   
  
   Lack of a      policy framework for youth development generally and management of youth      polytechnics specifically.
   Youth      polytechnics are not mainstreamed in the national education and training      system.
   Most youth      polytechnics are ill prepared for training, as their physical facilities      are run down and equipment are inadequate, absolute or not working. Their  programmes do not allow for horizontal      and upward mobility and are not market oriented 
   Quality      assurance mechanism are lacking in the sector.
   The image of      youth polytechnic is very low since they are perceived as inferior      institutions for primary school failures and dropouts 
   Youth      polytechnic graduates are not employable because they lack both      appropriate skills for employment and they lack resources and      entrepreneurial skills to start own business.
   Majority of      students of youth polytechnics graduate before attaining maturity age of      18 years and cannot get employed under the current law.
   Majority of      instructors are inadequately trained or not trained at all in technical      trades and pedagogy.
   Youth polytechnic      staffs have no scheme of service and are paid extremely low wages and are      not motivated.
   Most youth      polytechnics are poorly funded due to poverty levels in the communities      that support them or pay fees for the trainees and lack of government      budgetary allocation.
   The      governance in the youth polytechnics is weak because of lack of clear      legal institutions framework on which the management committees operate 
   A number of      youth polytechnics have no provision for persons with disabilities 
   Most youth      polytechnics have no recreational facilities for the youth.
   Many youth      polytechnics lack electricity reliable water supply and access roads. They      have not exploited alternative sources of energy.
   Most YPS      have no collaboration or networking arrangements with other institutions nationally      or internationally.
   
   
   
  Sorry for posting the document late.
   
  Margaret Gitiiya 
   
   
   
   
   
  
       
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