State won't stop implementing education reforms - Gachagua
Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has said the government will press on with instituting reforms in the education sector. https://rb.gy/uxeb2
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00:00 This 41st graduation is significant.
00:03 A few days ago, President William Ruto
00:06 received the Presidential Working Party
00:09 on Education Reforms Report.
00:12 The report has set on course a raft of reforms
00:15 that will re-engineer the education system
00:18 to meet emerging socioeconomic development
00:20 demands of our great country.
00:23 It also happens when our nation is
00:24 grappling with rampant unemployment
00:28 as graduates from tertiary institutions
00:31 compete for limited opportunities.
00:34 This was one of the reasons that the president sought
00:37 inclusive and evidence-based reforms in the education sector
00:42 to refocus and retool our graduates from job-seeking
00:46 to job-creation.
00:48 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
00:52 The changes we have made in the education sector
00:54 is making education for the rich.
00:57 It's a lie, a blatant lie.
00:59 All we are saying is we are changing the model so
01:03 that people, once you are given assistance, it's full.
01:07 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
01:15 We have just refocused and changed
01:17 the strategy of funding university education
01:20 because there are many challenges.
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