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Other Education and Training Programmes and Projects
School Feeding: The programme targets vulnerable children from food insecure communities in ASALs. This will support the Government’s efforts in achieving universal primary education (MDG 2). In order to ensure sustainability of the School Feeding Programme, support will be provided to the current HGSMP, which provides mid-day school based meals to children in ASALs and gradually roll-out this programme in arid areas.
Enhancing Quality and Relevance of Education: To enhance quality and relevance of E&T, skills and competencies mapping will be carried out and a national human resource development plan will be developed. Other projects will include teacher education, recruitment and management, modernization of teacher training, recruitment of more teachers, establishment of education standards and quality assessment council to oversee quality assurance and standards functions and automation of teacher management.
Education Sector Governance: This will involve reviewing and developing policies necessary to ensure that national government and county governments cooperate in management of education sector in harmony. In this regard, the sector will establish E&T governing bodies, develop and review education policies, establish county education data centres, undertake capacity building for E&T sector leadership and management and establish a ministerial monitoring and evaluation system.
Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET): This will involve: establishing a central admission service for TVET government sponsored students; establishing vocational training centre at constituency level and at least one technical college at county level; establishing a TVET authority; streamlining management and assessment of industrial attachment process; institutionalization of quality assurance and accreditation system and monitoring, evaluation, reporting and inspection in TVET; and establishing labour market information system and other survey instruments for data on actual employability of TVET graduates in partnership with industry.
University Education: This will focus on delivering University E&T system that is internationally competitive as envisaged in Kenya Vision 2030. It will involve expanding access and equity, improving quality and relevance and investing in human resource by enhancing institutionalization of excellence and increasing the level of research funding. Formalization of linkages of private sector with academia and the government through curriculum development will be enhanced.
