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Purpose of education is to give us usable skills, not Government jobs

University students were recently stunned when the Commission of University Education (CUE) rubbished 133 university courses as ‘useless’. CUE is charged with approving all the academic programmes in local universities.

This comes after Deputy President William Ruto’s remarks, intimating that some university courses were irrelevant. While speaking at Kenya Technical Trainers College in Nairobi during the launch of a TVET Competency-Based Educational and Training framework last year, Ruto rubbished courses such as history, geography, sociology and anthropology. The deputy president wondered why someone should have a degree and end up roasting maize by the roadside.

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