Revealed! Only Half Of Kenyan University Graduates Are Fit For The Job Market

It is quite common nowadays to hear of how Human Resource Managers are quite disappointed with today’s graduates who are seeking jobs.

Most are half baked and the others just don’t have any skills at all. Some even go as far as to lie in interviews that they can perform but don’t live up to the expectations. So who is to blame, the university or the education system?

It turns out that only half of the more than 50,000 students who graduate annually are suitable for employment.

The damning report on the state of higher education in Kenya is corroborated by Ernst and Young, which assesses employability of graduates and the fledgling teaching and research system within the institutions of higher learning.

The IUCEA findings suggest that majority of those who graduate cannot land or will find it challenging to secure long-term employment in their fields of study.

“That is only one part of the problem. The whole university education system should be rethought. We are no longer motivated by the quest for knowledge but rather by a primitive urge to acquire pieces of paper to secure jobs. For the instructors, it is a matter of making as much money from as many universities as possible,” Prof Sam Kubasu, an educationist, tells The Standard.

The Kenyan higher education system has not however always been brushed aside for its poor quality. At one time, Kenyan universities stood shoulder to shoulder with global centres in terms of research and publication. As of 2013, the Commission for University Education says there are 48 universities in Kenya with more than 200,000 students.

What do you think about this whole damning report…..are Kenyan graduates half baked as they have been claimed to be so many times?

Source: The Standard