From the researcher's brief, it is very clear that Kenya cannot compete with India if the sheer volume of skilled resource is the determinant for market
from MM --- On Mon, 6/8/09, muriuki mureithi <mureithi@summitstrategies.co.ke> wrote: Please send this to the list - my mail was rejected by the system that it is spam ------- Hi listers penetration. There is another way however, it is time we evaluate our strength and focus on a niche market. This way we can put our human resource base development efforts to considerable advantage. What is our niche or what could be our niche? Do we know? On the specific question of a database, I suspect one institution may not adequately manage the database largely due to the limited mandate. A way forward to categorise the human resource skills into a) academic skills 2) industrial skills 3) in-house specialised skills. Under a) the ministries of education or one of its institutions has or should have a mandate to keep track of what goes through its institutions of tertiary or higher learning. Under b) ministry of labour and hopefully Department of Industrial Training should have a database because they have oversight on industrial training. This would also strengthen the capacity of those institutions to do what they should do and mandated to do sustainably Cheers muriuki Mureithi