African Manufacturing Companies Need Workshops For Kids Creating A Clear path For Local Employment.
My story is very simple,
In my teenage years, I crafted a low quality radio antennae without any adult supervision in Western Kenya close to Uganda border. I was able to capture both Uganda and Tanzanian channels which played my favorite urban music. As a bonus, I was introduced to Bongo Rap Music: Great poetical talent back then. All this was before high school, which only taught theoretical physics. I call this experience backward-learning and here's why:
Our school systems have for long time been creating unemployment for many youths destroying national growth. I have witnessed disadvantaged kids try fix radios and solved minor engineering problems while sent home for fees to pay for absolutely nothing.
This is why I propose a way to solve the unemployment crisis in Africa with the help of both private and government industries. CBC and CBE in Kenya has already been overtaken by inexperienced trainers who are only after the money. Leaders in the Education ministry offer incompetence, talking about how it's hard to sustain disadvantaged schooling systems in remote settings and thus focus on developed schools in established settings establishing more error through marginalization; I was able to make that antennae in a remote setting.
What we need is experts in various manufacturing industries, to be awarded Teaching and Training Certificates in collaboration with Primary and secondary level teachers and to create Technical syllabuses. Their work is to integrate tangible engineering into the education system.
Expanded Workshops, both in Schools and The Manufacturing Companies is the way to go to stop politicians from building more classrooms to get votes from parents, what we need is hubs and labs the schools already have land. We have already wasted a lot of money serving incompetency but this new path should still be cheaper and more effective in terms of real skill-development.
We don't want confusion, we want kids to be able to choose from the grassroot level and develop real career skills instead of graduating and applying for office jobs. Graduates who never knew what talents were inbuilt in them all scrambling for office spaces.