Partnership In Curriculum Development and Performance of Public Technical Vocational Education and Training Institutions In South Rift Region, Kenya

Abstract: Companies across sectors are struggling to find suitable candidates for job vacancies because the TVET courses offered at various training institutions often do not meet the requirements of the private sector. However, there are limited studies in the Kenyan context focusing on the impact of public private partnership in curriculum development on the performance of TVET institutions. In this regard the current study has been designed to investigate the impact of public private partnership in curriculum development on performance of public Technical Vocational Education and Training Institutions in South Rift Region, Kenya. In a bid to effectively achieve this, the study adopted an Explanatory Sequential research design based on samples drawn from across the TVET institutions in South Rift Region which have public private partnership in their respective institutions. The target population was 470 trainers who included trainers of mechanical engineering departments, electrical engineering departments, building departments, management representative of TVET institutions in South rift region. Cluster, stratified random and sampling simple random technique was used. A sample size of 214 was drawn from a total population of 470 trainers. Data was collected by use of interview schedules and questionnaires from the respondents and analysed by use of simple linear regression and descriptive statistics eg frequencies, standard deviation, means using SPSS version 25. From the findings curriculum development explained 41.7 per cent variation on Performance of public Technical Vocational Education and Training Institutions From the regression coefficient β values for Curriculum development (0.433). In the qualitative analysis of interviews, the findings showed that the public TVET institutions adopted private public partnership in curriculum development to ensure performance of public TVET institutions. The study therefore concludes that PPPs in curriculum development positively and significantly affect performance of public TVET institutions. The study therefore recommends Therefore, there is need for strengthening private public partnership curriculum development to improve the performance of public TVET institutions.

Keywords: Curriculum Development, Partnership and Performance of TVET