Curriculum Delivery in Tvet Institutions

Description

A lot of work in the informal economy is skilled despite the fact that most skills are derived from the non-formal vocational education or developed informally through traditional apprenticeship training. In this regard Technical vocational education and training (TVET) is broadly accepted as a way of reducing societal problems associated with the informal economy. However, the main focus in the education sector is at secondary and primary schools education. Therefore, vocational education programs are normally marginalized because they do not usually lead to direct employment or improve living conditions. Lack of industrial experience for many TVET teachers and desire to develop partnerships with industry beyond funding have been incriminated for inefficiency and effectiveness of curriculum delivery in consonance with the dynamics of world of work. In this regard, the government has decided to improve TVET in terms of relevance, quality and accessibility. These aspirations are premised on the Kenya’s Vision 2030 objective which was to convert the country into a “newly industrializing, middle-income country that can provide high quality of life to her citizens by year 2030. This affirms the indispensability of TVET College instructors to possess technical competencies, pedagogical skills as well as industry-acquired experience in order to be able to provide quality curriculum delivery. It’s therefore presumed that epitomisising the employee’s critical succes factors of TQM by TVET will guarantee quality service through curriculum delivery which will provide knowledge, skills, competencies and values that will enable learners to move seamlessly from the education system into the world of work which is at the heart of their vision.

Dr. Bornes C. Korir holds a B.Ed. Arts, MBA in Human Resource Management, MPhil and PhD in Education Management. She is a Lecturer at University of Eldoret and an avid researcher in education administration and management with a wealth of experience in teaching. Dr. Bornes is proactive in researching on integration of quality aspects of curriculum delivery to address the place of the curriculum and human resource management in the industrial – based economy.