Taita Taveta and Kiambu Polytechnics shine at Dual TVET awards

Taita Taveta and Kiambu National Polytechnics emerged as the overall Dual TVET champions, while Karen Technical Institute for the Deaf and Machakos Technical Institute for the Blind were honoured for promoting inclusion. Gold Crown EPZ and Stantech Motors were among the companies awarded for supporting industry-based learning.

TVET Principal Secretary Dr. Esther Muoria praised the growing partnership between institutions and industries, saying Dual TVET is turning learning into livelihoods.

“Our youths are one of the biggest resources if not actually the biggest in Kenya, and therefore we want to ensure that they are properly skilled through Dual TVET because this is the resource that as a country we are going to depend on to industrialize this country," Dr. Esther Muoria, PS, State Department for TVET, said. 

“We’ve seen a change in the quality of the products, that’s the trainees that we’ve input since we onboarded. While training, our trainees appreciate the work that they are going to do out in the industry. They get hands-on experience. It has exposed them to a whole lot of things other graduates do not get an opportunity to experience," Lorah Abedi, DP, Taita Taveta National Polytechnic, noted. 

“We were selected as three institutions and Kiambu was given the lead, and I want to say that we’ve not disappointed. We’ve won all the prestigious awards including being the overall winner," Sammy K. Waititu, Chief Principal, Kiambu National Polytechnic, pointed out. 

The impact as far as our trainees are concerned has been quite phenomenal. Our trainees graduate and even before they graduate, they’re absorbed into the labour market, and I believe that is the way to go."