{"id":3536,"date":"2019-07-03T11:46:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T11:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3536"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","slug":"vocational-training-can-cure-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/03\/vocational-training-can-cure-unemployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocational Training Can Cure Unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By WINNIE PERTET<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the\nproblem of youth unemployment persists, attacks on the education system and the\nrole of government in it also grow. And Kenyans seem to adopt increasingly hardened\npositions that, unfortunately, generate more heat than light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But\nwhile many contributors make apparently sensible arguments, most of them seem\nto be equipped with an incomplete picture of the role of education in youth\nemployability and, specifically, the current challenge of creating adequate\njobs for Kenyan youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No\ncountry can survive, let alone prosper, in this world of knowledge-driven but\ncompetency-based economies. Indeed, more developed countries are prioritizing a\ndelicate balance between education and knowledge in their abstract forms, and\ntheir application to solving social and developmental problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Germany,\nfor instance, emerged from the ashes of the World Wars by emphasizing\nvocational training to create readily available solutions to a people ravaged\nby war. Japan invested heavily in technological innovations as a way of\nasserting its voice in a world besieged by bipolar geopolitics&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/oped\/opinion\/Vocational-training-can-cure-unemployment\/440808-5180354-ig70k4\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By WINNIE PERTET As the problem of youth unemployment persists, attacks on the education system and the role of government in it also grow. And Kenyans seem to adopt increasingly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}