China has offered to build a vocational training college in Bukoba in order to create more technicians for the development of the country.
Speaking yesterday at a short ceremony to handover a plot to the
Chinese government for the construction of the college, the Permanent
Secretary in the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training Prof
Sifuni Mchome said that lack of enough experts in different fields was
stalling the country’s economy.
Prof Mchome said lack of experts was because a small number of people joining vocational training colleges.
He said the country needs to invest heavily in vocational training
to enable primary and secondary school leavers acquire vocational
skills.
Prof Mchome said vocational training colleges were not meant for
people who failed in their final examinations but rather they were
established basically to impart various vocational skills to others.
Speaking at the event, the official from the Embassy of China in
Tanzania, Lin Zhiyong pointed out that the development of every nation
was based on education.
Zhiyong said Kagera is lucky because 90 youths from the region will go to China to attend vocation training later this year.
Earlier speaking at the event Kagera Regional Administrative
Secretary, Nassor Mnambila said the region has 38 vocational training
colleges, most of them privately owned.
The region has also 939 and 242 primary and secondary schools respectively.
Mnambila said when completed the college, to be built at Burugo
village in Bukoba rural, would offer carpentry and tailoring courses.
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