Science courses and Social sciences versus achievement of Kenya's economic blueprints.

  

Date Posted: 10/31/2012 5:25:54 AM

Posted By: Franco1989  Membership Level: Silver  Total Points: 321

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There has been a debate over the years as to what the government should consider funding in terms of education to steer the country towards economical sustainability and freedom and so is achieving the vision 2030.The biggest chunk of the debate has been attributed to higher education and what relevant skills the government should equip it's young nation. Is it technological based skills or humanities and social sciences. Higher education should be relevant in a way to enable economic growth and well managed resources which is basically through good management.

We should look at this debate in this sense, in the 1960s we are always told that the Asian and middle East countries were in the same level economically like Kenya or even below us for example China, South Korea, North Korea, India, Taiwan, Singapore and others. According to vast research on the topic as to how they turned the tables to become giant technological and economical giants, all the findings pointed towards establishment of Universities that offered technology based studies and sciences.

America as another epitome of technology is also said to have invested heavily on science courses and technology based training and that is when it established the Silicon valley which has been producing innovations in so many fields. There are numerous Universities too that offer technology based course like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for instance and the California University.

China is also said to take the same track and we can see how that has been tremendous since it is becoming a major exporter of both products and human resource in the sector of technology. If we rank the top most countries in terms of economy and technology we can therefore state clearly that it is upon the governments to start investing heavily in equipping it's Institutes

of higher learning with technological based courses.

We however should not attribute economic growth entirely on science based courses since the Arts and humanities have their place and perform their work well. Most of the Arts prepare the administrators, communication specialists and the Human Resource managers who are very core in the running of any growing economy such that without them then the technological savvy would not be able to run the affairs alone and would fumble with quite a number of affairs.

We should embrace both the humanities and the the sciences and make sure that they are well articulated to ensure that there is growth in all the sectors of the economy.

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