Comprehensive survey of Kenya's micro, small and medium entreprise

[RV Pundit]

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MSme - They define it as business that employ 1-99 employees. They found out that about 14.6M kenyans are employed in these sectors.

Micro-enterprises have less than 10 employees; small enterprises have 10-49 employees while medium sized enterprises have between 50 and 99 employees

http://www.knbs.or.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=408:2016-micro-small-and-medium-enterprises-msme-survey-basic-report&catid=82:news&Itemid=593

[hk]

MSme - They define it as business that employ 1-99 employees. They found out that about 14.6M kenyans are employed in these sectors.

Micro-enterprises have less than 10 employees; small enterprises have 10-49 employees while medium sized enterprises have between 50 and 99 employees

http://www.knbs.or.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=408:2016-micro-small-and-medium-enterprises-msme-survey-basic-report&catid=82:news&Itemid=593

Interesting that Manufacturing is only second to retail and wholesale as a category. If we can have more consolidation some of this small companies will grow to big companies with scale.

[RV Pundit]

The strongest denominator for me is the level of education. The more we churn graduates and post graduates - the more we can see them setting small and medium enteprise...that eventually transition to big enterprises. We need to invest more and more on university education. I am disappointed Uhuru think we should do polythenics and vocational course..I think for me we should allow universities to offer vocation courses....but ensure at least in every constitutuency...we have a public university....say 350 public universities in the next 10 yrs....with ability to enroll all the 500,000 student graduating from high schools...and slowly we can weed out the mama mboga/dukawallas and jua-kali welders.

A std 8 or below juakali guy running his manufacturing hustle cannot graduate to  sme - he will always remain hobbled and will stick to producing sufurias for years. But university graduate who start making sufurias..will soon be doing big things.

If you read this report - that is very apparent - when you get to classification & earnings - the level of education is the big elephant. The difference btw say kenya and say a developed world.

Interesting that Manufacturing is only second to retail and wholesale as a category. If we can have more consolidation some of this small companies will grow to big companies with scale.

[hk]

The strongest denominator for me is the level of education. The more we churn graduates and post graduates - the more we can see them setting small and medium enteprise...that eventually transition to big enterprises. We need to invest more and more on university education. I am disappointed Uhuru think we should do polythenics and vocational course..I think for me we should allow universities to offer vocation courses....but ensure at least in every constitutuency...we have a public university....say 350 public universities in the next 10 yrs....with ability to enroll all the 500,000 student graduating from high schools...and slowly we can weed out the mama mboga/dukawallas and jua-kali welders.

A std 8 or below juakali guy running his manufacturing hustle cannot graduate to  sme - he will always remain hobbled and will stick to producing sufurias for years. But university graduate who start making sufurias..will soon be doing big things.

If you read this report - that is very apparent - when you get to classification & earnings - the level of education is the big elephant. The difference btw say kenya and say a developed world.

Interesting that Manufacturing is only second to retail and wholesale as a category. If we can have more consolidation some of this small companies will grow to big companies with scale.

That's accurate about the correlation between education and income even in manufacturing.  Vocational or trade skills will still be needed if some of this companies are to graduate to big businesses. A lot of polytechnics were upgraded to universities leaving a gap. Maybe what we need is to encourage graduates to start companies and I think that's already happening going by the report. Licensed businesses started mainly cause of skill, prefer self employed and ready market respectively. Unlike unlicensed businesses which majority were started cause there's no other alternative. So most drop outs most likely start unlicensed businesses which are unlikely to grow while licensed are started by people who are informed.

[RV Pundit]

I think my problem with vocation or trade skills - is that they are seen as an end - but if they are offered in universities - then someone can work his way all the way to phd. I don't know why universities cannot offer certificate or artisan level certificates.  We should stick to 8-4-4  as much as possible. This idea of having teachers colleges offering p1 course and polythenic offering some knec certificates should be scrapped...and we should have universities training primary teachers or welders. I would convert all the current post-primary education to universitity colleges offering a whole range of courses. Those primary teachers or polytechnics should be campus for universities offering diplomas...with possibility to proceed to degree and beyond.

[Kichwa]

mmm!.  Have to think it through but definitely intriguing.

I think my problem with vocation or trade skills - is that they are seen as an end - but if they are offered in universities - then someone can work his way all the way to phd. I don't know why universities cannot offer certificate or artisan level certificates.  We should stick to 8-4-4  as much as possible. This idea of having teachers colleges offering p1 course and polythenic offering some knec certificates should be scrapped...and we should have universities training primary teachers or welders. I would convert all the current post-primary education to universitity colleges offering a whole range of courses. Those primary teachers or polytechnics should be campus for universities offering diplomas...with possibility to proceed to degree and beyond.

[RV Pundit]

Most folks think polytechnics is for failures...the nearest to my abode in konoin is empty dead building.