Obsolete education systems must change with the times or perish

Kenyan primary school pupil Nasha Nkirote, does her assignments from home. Many of today’s learners are having online classes. PHOTO | JARED NYATAYA | NMG

One design flaw of our education systems is certification. Certification over imagination, one would say.

Ponder this: You have a civil engineering department at a university but when it’s time to build new structures, the job is contracted to Chinese firms. Is it that the graduates lack the competencies required? Do the authorities lack confidence in those being churned out by the system?