Over 50,000 qualified candidates have decided not to join Kenyan universities, instead opting for kmtcs, tvets and other colleges.
While the usual cabal of preaching how useless university education is took the opportunity to preach, the reality is more of an economic problem in our country.
As I explained in a previous thread about our enclave(umbrella) economy, if you don’t find your way inside the umbrella you are doomed to try jua kali or remain jobless.
So the little economy colonialists left behind is what we are still massaging, sometimes it gets erections big enough for different economic instruments designed by the west to register the stiffness like it happened under mwai kibaki, but the stiffness doesn’t last long enough to satisfy the masses.
In another thread about NIABM illustration, a Chinese man captures our problems so well and concludes it will take generations to get their.
Your politicians seem to know it will take generations and that’s why they behave as they behave, little care.
I remember back in the days, I think it was in class 1 to 3,we had this teacher called madam rose. She used to tell us, you are not learning for anyone but the woman you will marry and your kids. Besides that, it’s your only insurance if this hellhole called Kenya burns down, your papers will decide if you stay in a paper house in a refugee camp in a new country or if you will be allowed to seek a job and shelter outside the camp.
She was an old lady but I never forgot her words, in today’s Kenya I see the truth of her words.
While the economic situation has interfered with the education sector, please get those papers and skills. Have a portfolio of things you have done.
If shit hits the fan, those papers will save you wherever you go. (You can see those Somalians, Ethiopians, Sudanese, South Sudanese, Congolese, Rwandese, Burundians, Yemenis, Syrians, Eritreans in Kenya as refugees with papers and skills don’t live in refugee camps, while those without papers are confined to the camps. Even when they attain them within the camps its more hard to get out than those who arrived here with their papers)
