This archive report was first published on 3 January 2020.
A Country of Wasted Brains ¶
Published on January 3, 2020
Kenyan university graduates face a perennial predicament: few get absorbed into the job market, despite the country's over 60 universities churning out top brains every year.
Thousands of graduates are not engaged in any meaningful economic activities, wasting away as the country grapples with an all-time high rate of unemployment.
The education sector is in crisis, with the country awash with university graduates who cannot find meaningful engagement after college.
Robert Kiyosaki's leadership book, Why 'A' students work for 'C' students and 'B' students work for the government, aptly captures this predicament.
According to Kiyosaki, the 8:4:4 system of education judges all learners using the same yardstick, regardless of individual learner's giftedness.
Albert Einstein once asserted,
