The Education ministry and Chinese firm Avic International will this year begin the second phase of equipping technical training institutions to improve learning in the institutions. The company gave the ministry a concessionary loan of Sh16 billion to equip the labs of 134 technical and vocational institutions with Chinese machinery. According to Principal Secretary Vocational and Technical Training Dinah Mwinzi, this will help in the reduction of unemployment among the youths. She encouraged training institutions to adopt a hands-on approach in the training of their students. The first phase, which started in 2013, involved 10 learning institutions and 15,000 students at a cost of Sh3.3 billion ($33 million) including Technical University of Kenya (TUK) in the capital Nairobi.

Source: The Star January 23, 2018 22:30 UTC