[kictanet] FW: Day 5 of 10- BPO Discussions, HR Issues

[Walubengo J]

from MM

--- On Mon, 6/8/09, muriuki mureithi <mureithi at summitstrategies.co.ke> wrote:
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Hi listers
>From the researcher's brief, it is very clear that Kenya cannot compete with
India if the sheer volume of skilled resource is the determinant for market
penetration. There is another way however, it is time we evaluate our
strength and focus on a niche market. This way we can put our human resource
base development efforts to considerable advantage. What is our niche or
what could be our niche? Do we know?

On the specific question of a database, I suspect one institution may not
adequately manage the database largely due to the limited mandate. A way
forward to categorise the human resource skills into a) academic skills 2)
industrial skills 3) in-house specialised skills.  Under a) the ministries
of education  or one of its institutions has or should have a mandate to
keep track of what goes through its institutions of tertiary or higher
learning.  Under b) ministry of labour and hopefully Department of
Industrial Training should have a database because they have oversight on
industrial training.
This would also strengthen the capacity of those institutions to do what
they should do and mandated to do sustainably

Cheers
muriuki Mureithi