Studies consist of five key programmes including housekeeping and laundry, front office management, food production, tour guiding, and wildlife management. Apart from the diploma course in wildlife management that runs for two years, other courses run for a year.
The school is registered with the Technical and Vocational Education and Training Authority (TVETA) with programs under the Kenya Institute of Curricular Development (KICD), with some exams administered by the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC).
In the future, the college hopes to start National Industrial Training Authority (NITA) accredited programs including beauty therapy, hairdressing, and motorcycle mechanics. Emily Lemein hails from a family of six. Upon completing high school, she started to rear chickens to make ends meet. She has an elder brother currently pursuing a course in electrical engineering at Maasai Mara University. Emily could not join the university due to financial constraints and opted for the equally productive courses at WTC, studying front office management and housekeeping.
According to Solomon Mpusya, a wildlife management student at the college, locals can see the impact of droughts or floods but hardly understand the causes.
"In the months when it should be raining, no rain comes. When it should be dry, it pours. The changing climate affects herbivores, disrupting the food chain in Maasai Mara. Our studies here will help our community plan and mitigate such disruptions. We do not need 'experts' from outside to come and tell us how to plant trees and how not to pollute the environment," says Mpusya.
The college is an expansion of Koiyaki Guiding School, an older institution that operated for close to 20 years in Naboisho Conservancy. Koiyaki was the brainchild of Jackson Looseyia, one of Kenya's acclaimed wildlife guides and a former commentator for BBC's Big Cat Diary series.
Moriaso Nabaala, a conservation biologist and the principal at WTC has been with the college since Koiyaki's inception. He says there was a need to expand the college by having more courses and enrolling more students. The Maasai community, he adds, now has a college where their young sons and daughters can enrol, something their parents never had the opportunity to do.