TVET enrolment jumps 42% as skills training goes mainstream

Kenya has produced degree holders who cannot find work while employers cannot find welders, plumbers, machinists or technicians. The administration attacked that mismatch head-on.

• TVET enrolment grew 42%, from 340,131 (2022) to 484,333 (2025).
• Capitation was extended to TVET trainees so the cost per trainee to the household fell sharply.
• New and upgraded technical training institutes were rolled out at constituency level.
• 213 Jua Kali artisans received formal recognition of prior learning — certifying skills people already had but could never prove on paper.

A certified artisan can price their work, win a tender, get a loan and go abroad. An uncertified one cannot.