Vocational education is a tool and clear path to national development. It lays a strong foundation for one’s life and career and equips one with skills for gainful employment. Vocational subjects are designed to develop skills, abilities, understanding, attitude, work habit and appreciation encompassing knowledge and information needed by any worker.

Technical and vocational institutes are both practical and skills training institutions. In Rwanda there are over 100 technical and vocational training institutions. Vocational and technical education in Rwanda is very instrumental because it offers alternatives to conventional education which is expensive and also largely responsible for the high rates of unemployment.

Some technical or vocational schools graduates are better than those who went to universities. They help create and promote small scale employment in the country.

Vocational education churns out job creators. There should be  sensitisation on the value of vocational and technical education because people have a bad perception about vocational education. They look at it as an alternative for failures.

This has created a culture of scrambling for university education, even when some of the courses they do at university only make them job seekers and un-competitive in the employment world.