All universities, colleges to have career service offices

All Universities and tertiary institutions in the country is now be required to establish offices of career services in a new policy shift set to be unveiled Thursday in Nairobi by Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed.

The office of career services will seek to empower students to make right career choices in 73 universities and 200 tertiary institutions across the country.

The programme rollout will start on July 1 and full establishment and operationalization of OCS in universities will take no longer than two months.

“This process will continue until all the institutions have fully established and operationalized the offices by December 31 this year.

Reports at the Ministry of Education indicate that Kenyatta University has embraced the importance of equipping their students with the required entrepreneurial skills through the Kenyatta University Manu Chandaria Incubation Centre located at the institution’s main campus.

Similarly, Strathmore University and United States International University (USIU) have applied some aspect of office of career services.

The proposal to have OCS in all universities and tertiary institutions is mirrored to other prominent OCS such as Harvard, Princeton, Oxford, University of Pennsylvania and so on that have attained prominence worldwide and will look to provide individual advising and campus wide networking events to expose the students to great opportunities.

The office of career services  will offer academic advise which will include; assisting students in developing educational plans consistent with their life goals,  providing  students with accurate information about academic progression and degree requirement, thus allowing students to properly plan their progress, assisting students in understanding academic policies and procedures and helping students access campus resources that will enhance their ability to be academically  successful among others.