TVET Curriculum Certification Council Reinstated by the Cabinet

The cabinet has reinstated the operation of the Technical and Vocational Education and Training – Curriculum Development Assessment and Certification Council (TVET-CDACC).

This move by the cabinet is meant to improve TVETs’ ability to equip the youth with skills. 

“Cabinet rescinded the decision of Cabinet in the last Administration abolishing the Technical & Vocation Education & Training -Curriculum Development Assessment and Certification Council, re-establishing the same (TVET-CDACC),” part of a Cabinet brief stated on Tuesday.

“This is as part of the administration’s plan on enhancing the equipping the youth with technical skills to help them better contribute to our national development.” It further read.

As such, the cabinet has reversed the decision of abolishing the TVET-CDACC in 2022, which was made during President Uhuru Kenyatta’s reign.

Moreover, the cabinet says having TVET-CDACC back will anchor the development of a learner-centered, flexible, and demand-driven and industry-led TVET curricula for training institutions.

“This measure secures examination, assessment, and competence certification as the lynchpin for the Administration’s Transformative Plan for the nation, espoused as the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA),” the report containing Tuesday’s Cabinet resolutions stated.

Nonetheless, Principal Secretary to the Department of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), Esther Muoria in early March this year made public the plans.

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She argued that polytechnics and TVET institutions had already developed systems of examining their learners. 

Muoria noted that the government will ensure a 70/30 per cent Industry/College training curriculum, where students take 70 per cent training in the industry and the remaining 30 per cent in the college.

Nonetheless, the Cabinet also approved the Privatization Bill, 2023, which allows the Treasury to sell off publicly held companies without first receiving bureaucratic consent from the parliament.

According to the cabinet, the privatization bill will revoke the Privatization Act, 2005 ushering in a more facilitative and non-inhibiting legal and policy framework that will oversee privatization in the country.

As such, they said selling non-strategic, non-performing public entities will assist in improving the upgrade of infrastructure and the delivery of services to Kenyans.

“To support the state’s divestiture from non-strategic sectors of our national life, Cabinet approved the Privatization Bill,” the report from the Cabinet stated.