By WINNIE PERTET
As the problem of youth unemployment persists, attacks on the education system and the role of government in it also grow. And Kenyans seem to adopt increasingly hardened positions that, unfortunately, generate more heat than light.
But while many contributors make apparently sensible arguments, most of them seem to be equipped with an incomplete picture of the role of education in youth employability and, specifically, the current challenge of creating adequate jobs for Kenyan youth.
No country can survive, let alone prosper, in this world of knowledge-driven but competency-based economies. Indeed, more developed countries are prioritizing a delicate balance between education and knowledge in their abstract forms, and their application to solving social and developmental problems.
Germany, for instance, emerged from the ashes of the World Wars by emphasizing vocational training to create readily available solutions to a people ravaged by war. Japan invested heavily in technological innovations as a way of asserting its voice in a world besieged by bipolar geopolitics…Read more>>
