{"id":8356,"date":"2020-02-28T08:55:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T05:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8356"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:53","slug":"limiting-varsities-to-job-training-simplistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/28\/limiting-varsities-to-job-training-simplistic\/","title":{"rendered":"Limiting Varsities To Job Training Simplistic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There has been a sustained erroneous narrative that attempts to portray universities as pure instruments of economic development, implicitly meant to teach for the market. This is a dangerous path that need to be called out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Education ministry comes off as an entity with short-term objectives. Whereas it is necessary for universities to contribute to economic and technological development, such a role is not sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We equally need humane, critical and inquisitive minds that can foster our social fabric and promote innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Confining students to the prevailing expectations of industry stifles innovation and creativity, effectively producing automatons that are rendered obsolete when expectations shift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After independence, for instance, some people trained for the then available opportunities only to face harsh unemployment once the few positions were filled up. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/oped\/opinion\/Limiting-varsities-to-job-training-simplistic\/440808-5467400-9c1g64\/index.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a sustained erroneous narrative that attempts to portray universities as pure instruments of economic development, implicitly meant to teach for the market. This is a dangerous path&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8357,"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-8356","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\/8356","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=8356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}