Morola: Mismatch in labour market

 THERE is a mismatch in the labour market and Government departments must train people according to labour demand, Labour Secretary Mary Morola says.

Morola was among 11 heads of department who signed their contracts at Government house yesterday.

She said training institutions must not train for the sake of training, or up-skill for the sake of up-skilling.

“We need to meet the labour market demand so that training institutions can deliver the critical and skills shortage in the labour market and therefore, train towards meeting that,” she said. 

“We look at the developments happing around here. 

“Right now we need people like process technicians who are going to be working so we look at more advanced trade in the areas of tradesmen.

“We need to also understand that Technical Vocational Education Training is really the potential for work for young people.

“Technical vocational training is important because this is where the potential of the people will be finding jobs in the small-to-medium enterprises.”

She said the TVET-level qualification should be pushed in terms of increasing capacity building a bit more into poly-technical colleges.

“We have technical colleges and they don’t match, because under the qualifications framework, there are certain levels that go up to national qualifications certificate then into the TVET sector,” she said.