<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div></div><div>Hi Listers,</div><div><br></div><div>Finally the government has realised that is foolhardy to produce only graduates and the ministry of higher education has passed a directive that only 10% of institutions will offer graduates and 60% will offer diploma and higher diploma qualifications.</div><div><br></div><div>Even though the standard for development is 1:10:100:1000 where for every graduate you produce, especially technical, you need to provide 10 high national diploma holders, 100 hundred national diploma holders and 1000 artisans.</div><div><br></div><div>If we take the example of the ICT industry for us to fully exploit the skills of a single ICT graduate we need 10 programmers to fill in the code and 100 diploma/certificate (i.e. IMIS & ICDL) holders to support
the application. </div><div><br></div><div>Our current inverted pyramid has resulted in ICT graduates being relegated to coders or being retrained to handle activities that would have been best handled by a diploma holder. It was not too bad when it lasted as I was seeing the possibility of employing a graduate as the domestic technician come private tutor. Kudos to the ministry for finally waking up to the reality on the ground. <br> </div>Robert Yawe<br>KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>Phoenix House, 6th Floor<br>P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200<br>Kenya<br><br><div>Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696<div><br></div></div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
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