{"id":2107,"date":"2023-05-10T20:19:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T17:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2023-05-10T20:36:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T17:36:11","slug":"developing-students-technical-abilities-to-meet-market-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/index.php\/2023\/05\/10\/developing-students-technical-abilities-to-meet-market-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing Students&#8217; Technical Abilities To Meet Market Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Changes in the economy, nature, production, and society together with increasing scientific and technological<br>knowledge make demands of transforming school teaching in the field of technology education. Students are highly motivated to work with their hands because they enjoy working with their hands and like the independence and chance for creativity to take route.<br>It is from this background that Kagadi Institute of Science and Technology organized special training for students so that they can gain additional skills on top of what they are offering.<br>Over 50 students have been trained in making shopping bags from environmentally friendly materials. The materials are cheap yet yield big profits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>With these skills, students are able to start earning from the sales of crafts which can enable them to raise capital to start their own businesses.<br>Mr. Mwinganiza Godfrey, the KISTEC Academic Registrar said that training is aimed at ensuring that the students gain a variety of skills for self-reliance.<br>\u201c On top of what the student is offering, it is necessary to learn other skills at their disposal so that they can confidently face the world of work. It\u2019s better if a student has the capacity to initiate different income-generating ventures. This creates a flexible environment for our graduates.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"KISTEC Students Produce Outstanding Crafts\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QDnhZINEBpc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He however noted with concern that most of the students don\u2019t have the capacity to buy materials to start up their small enterprises. He called upon like-minded partners to support KISTEC students with startup kits.<br>\u201cOur students come from low-income families and therefore require some seed capital. I know there are organizations and individuals out there willing to support some of our students, especially girls so that they can easily practice the skills they have gained. We highly welcome you to work with us as we make the world a better place for everyone. \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"KISTEC Students Crafts Work in Show Room\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gvt-mtPWUjg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes in the economy, nature, production, and society together with increasing scientific and technologicalknowledge make demands of transforming school teaching in the field of technology education. Students are highly motivated to work with their hands because they enjoy working with their hands and like the independence and chance for creativity to take route.It is from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kistec_news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/KISTEC-Crafts-Work-2023.jpg",2560,1280,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/KISTEC-Crafts-Work-2023-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/KISTEC-Crafts-Work-2023-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/KISTEC-Crafts-Work-2023-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/KISTEC-Crafts-Work-2023-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/KISTEC-Crafts-Work-2023-1536x768.jpg",1536,768,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/KISTEC-Crafts-Work-2023-2048x1024.jpg",2048,1024,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/KISTEC-Crafts-Work-2023-340x240.jpg",340,240,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Administrator","author_link":"https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/index.php\/author\/administrator\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/index.php\/category\/kistec_news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">KISTEC News<\/a>","tag_info":"KISTEC News","comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119,"href":"https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions\/2119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kistec.ac.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}