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TVET enrolment drops by 213,000 as funding crisis deepens

Education CS Julius Ogamba, Principal Secretaries Beatrice Iyangala and Dr Esther Muoria, before the National Assembly's Public Investments Committee on Governance and Education at Mini Chambers in Nairobi, on July 15, 2026. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

MPs have raised concern over what they described as a worrying decline in enrolment in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions, warning that the government's push to make technical education the backbone of skills development could be under threat.

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