"The district development centre" a pilot project in integrated education for rural development

Abstract

This paper describes Kenya's search for a system of education which would provide the people with relevant skills, knowledge and attitudes for Creating employment in their immediate surroundings and to help the government in raising incomes in the rural areas of the country and improving the quality of rural life. The education system should particularly address itself to the learning needs of unemployed school leavers and-out of school youths and coordinate the training efforts of all government ministries and non-government organizations implementing development programmes.