Why more companies need to support technical colleges

Mercy Auma, a female mechanic working on a vehicle at a garage in Kisumu on June 13 2017. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

For a long time, Kenya has continued to release thousands of university graduates to the job market with scarce employment opportunities.

According to the released quarterly Labour report by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), in March 2020 Kenya’s unemployment rate stood at 10.4 per cent with the employment to population ratio estimated at 57.7 per cent.