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HIGHER LEVELS OF EDUCATION NOW EASILY AVAILABLE UP COUNTRY 

Many years ago during our youth hood, finding technical College or any other types of institutes that trained people in the various professions was very hard up country.  Training in professions was provided by only government school or colleges and if you were left out by this government institutions then there was no hope for you of ever becoming some one like, say a nurse or teacher or even a lawyer. Those who weren’t lucky to get a place in institutions were left out of  every  thing academically for good.

The government institutions by then were very few which means that the bigger percentage of school goes ended up having nowhere to utilize the knowledge that they gained In their schooling .There were a few private institutes though, but the condition under which the technical institutes operated were somewhere next to zero the quality of the training that was provided by the technical institutes wasn’t  that of the required standards. They were the opposite.

There was one such technical institute in Kericho town and perhaps, it was the first of its kind in the town followed by the commercial college on the Sansora building that is situated beside the Kenya commercial Bank the technical training institutes had a very  bad reputation but because the people, especially those of the low income earners from the tea Estates of Kericho and the small traders in the town and so on they just   had to bear  with it all and went on going to those place for training in the various professions. Most of the institutes however, didn’t teach much beyond mechanical work, typing carpentry and vehicle driving.

Those who went to train in those places in those times used to whisper us that the conditions in those places were so bad that it needed one to do something extra in order for them to acquire the required skills punctually ,they said that the institutions ,provided the students with training materials only ones during the whole period that a student was going to be with them .That is to say that it is the fees that you pay that will be used to buy the training material that you will need for your courses. If the materials got finished before you knew any thing in your course, then you had to wait until when a new student enrolled in the institute. That is when there would be more training material or if it were a mechanical course you will have to wait until when the next customer will come to have his or her vehicle serviced that is when you will get the chance to learn something again .Otherwise if it took even four to six months, you will be just waiting, no matter the time it will take .Most of the mechanical training in those times were provided in the garages or in the Jua Kali under the trees.

All these have changed however; the town has become a very good educational center. University colleges, teacher training colleges, commercial colleges and so on have all been opened here to help the youths to utilize their talents to the maximum .It is no longer hard to find a place to further your education as it used to be in the past .Nowadays the Diplomas and degrees are just at the peoples’ door steps the colleges provide up to standards training as is required by international educational standards. All the courses that one can want, you just name it, are available, and they have it.

All the major academic institutions in the country have opened their branches here in this town and they are doing quit well.