| dc.description.abstract | In light of the concerted efforts by government to revamp the Kenyan system of
TVET education, the study evaluates technical efficiency of public TVET institutions
using Data Envelopment Analysis. Specifically, the study analyses the efficiency of
34 TVET institutions based on available input data on expenditure, teaching staff and
enrollment and output data on number of graduates and mean pass rates. The
efficiency scores are then regressed against selected variables to determine their effect
on efficiency. Secondly, the study also examines total factor productivity change in
these institutions using the Malmquist Index using data for 5 years from 2008 to 2012.
The results from the data envelopment analysis suggest that a large number of the
TVET institutions are not efficient because they have efficiency scores of less than 1.
Moreover, findings from the efficiency scores suggest the TVET colleges could
improve performance by 32% using the same resources. In addition, mean annual
total factor productivity growth was positive and increased by 42.2 per cent and was
entirely due to technical change accounting for 38.2 per cent.
The study recommends that policies to ensure effective management and operations
of TVET institutions should be implemented. This may include greater
decentralization of the management structures of public TVET institutions to give
college managers more discretion in allocation of resources. Secondly, we
recommend that the assessment system in TVET institutions should be restructured to
ensure improvement in the low pass rates by implementing a competency based
assessment framework which is more valid to skills development. Lastly, the study
recommends enhanced and equitable funding of rural based institutions to ensure that
they operate optimally and are at par with urban based TVETs. | en_US |
