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| Frustrated graduate. |
Government
of Kenya and private investors have been trying to their level best to open up
schools that make Kenya
to ranked to among the nations with well‐educated people in Africa. Government
and donor
agencies have being showing effort into educating young people to be useful
people in nation building.
On contrary
few initiatives are conceptualized and implemented to afford these educated
young people employment. The only option left to them is to search for
employment that don’t match with their education and other becomes useless
people in the society despite being educated. Government can use various long‐term
measures to tackle the unemployment menace among educated young people. One
of the way is by improving the economy to be able to absorb a sizeable
proportion of the of the labor force into productive work. Reducing the cost of
doing business and keeping political and macro-economic
risk low would greatly contribute to improving Kenya’s young people.
It is
advisable and prudent for the government and stake holders to initiate programs
to not only provide
basic class education but also to provide field training and world experience
to its young learning
people.
Schools
managements especially universities and colleges should create co‐ordination
mechanism to promote
collaboration between industries and educational institutions for a joint
approach in addressing
unemployment challenge. This aspect or relationship where business community
sits in as member of
the board of educational institutions to provide teachers and students
placement in industries
during holidays to improve their experience sensitize the on the skill required
at the work place.
Since not
all young people are lucky enough to attend classes (school),it is good idea
for the government to
implement measures to train them on them on agriculture to raise agricultural
productivity and make them to access to credit with low interest rate.
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