EDUCATION VALUE AMID STRIKE

The education system in Kenya is one system that though it seems more of customized to fit the inhabitants of the country, there is more to it as it can easily be adopted by any nation that wishes to. Key to this is that it is simple and well structured. The 8.4.4 education

system has proven successful as ever since independence, most of the people who are working in the different sectors of the Kenyan job market have gone through the system.

The purpose of education is to empower the society right from the grass root to the top. However in Kenya things are not the same, many people in the country acquire education for the purpose of getting employed at some point in life. This move has come with so many challenges especially in the job market. The quality of education has been determined by the certificates you have rather than the skills you have achieved. Many people have sought out to illicit ways of acquiring education certificates so as to secure opportunities within the job market.


The system of delivering the education from the practitioners to the learners over time has never been evaluated. Most of the time teacher focus on completing the syllabus rather than assessing the learners to determine whether they have acquired the skills and knowledge given to them. Learners have therefore acquired the mentality that they are not in schools to learn and acquire new skills and better the ones they have but rather to move from one class to another and from one to the next level. This mentality is what prompts them to cheat in examinations so as to be able to move to the next level. This necessarily is because they don't see to it that if they don't move to the next class its because they are not able to retain what has been delivered to them but rather they see themselves as being the stupid as compared to the rest in the class. This is a call to action that reforms should be made.


Education should be highly valued both by the citizens and also by the government. It pains to see the leaders who are at the top instead of looking for solutions they behave like ladies who know they are beautiful and are being seduced by a previous fiancee to their best friend. It is as simple as obeying promises and paying teachers their dues and if there is no money, then negotiations should be done orderly. I find it hard to know the difference between the teacher who is carrying a cooking pan around and a senior government official who goes in the public to respond to the teachers action. I wonder how if i were a student, a teacher would stand abreast to give me knowledge and tell me to stay and behave mature when i saw him or her on the street hauling and carrying a pan written on HUNGER which gets me wondering if its their only problem.

The big question is will paying teachers the money solve all their problem? Will paying them improve the quality of education in the country? It sounds more of a noisy system if we will pay teachers a hefty sum of money when our children in the rural still cant pronounce simple English terms, if they cant simply retain what they learn in the school rooms, it will still be more worse if on the closing day our children will still be found in buses abusing drugs and indulging in activities we cant even talk of.
How valuable is the education we receive vis-a-vis the requirements of the job market today, does it march up? Are we after skills in education or are we chasing after papers? Recently 5000 graduated from the University of Nairobi alone but will they all be absorbed in the JOB MARKET?
Where then do they go to? Can they sustain themselves even without being employed based on the skills they have?

Lets all work towards a better country with an empowered human capital and a skillful job market where only those are FIT are in job industry.