Games and Sports In Teachers’ Colleges in Jeopardy
The participation of teachers’ training institutions in sports and other extracurricular activities has suffered as a result of a drop in student enrollment.
As a result of a lack of athletes, the 35 training colleges around the nation saw a reduction in enrollment from over 22,000 students in 2020 to about 6,000 students this year.
James Muguna, chairman of the Kenya Teachers’ Colleges Sports Association, claimed that most colleges failed to raise teams for Wednesday’s national athletics and Paralympic competitions.
Only a lean team, he said to Nation Sport, will compete in sports.
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In order to improve the quality of this year’s KTCSA ball games in April, institutions have also decreased the number of ball game disciplines from 12 to four, according to Muguna.
Given that women made up more than 90% of all college students, he claimed that certain institutions had less than 20 male pupils.
The institutions that produce the Competence Based Curriculum (CBC), which emphasizes athletics as a vital component, were compelled to discontinue offering men’s football, men’s hockey, and men’s basketball.
The lack of students has also caused a severe cash shortage at the colleges, which is making it difficult for them to pay sports officials across all disciplines.
“We used to have over 1,000 competitors when we were competing in the nationals, but this time, there were only 354.” Few institutions have a total student body that includes more than 20 guys.
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What we sought to do, according to Muguna, was preserve the competitive and sportsmanlike atmosphere in colleges.
Elyas Abdi, the director general of Early Learning and Basic Education, declared during the TTC athletic events of last year that physical education or sports will be required at all levels under CBC.
After Grade Six, according to him, students should have learned the fundamentals of human physiology, anatomy, nutrition, and sports ethics.
“They are no longer extra-curricular activities, meaning that athletics is as important as mathematics and physics taught in class,” states the senior secondary curriculum, which requires students to take at least one PE subject in ball games, athletics, and indoor games like boxing, gymnastics, water sports, martial arts, outdoor pursuits, and advanced PE.
“Treat it like a subject and even prepare for it when you take learners to a football game. He said to aspiring teachers, “We want teachers who not just walk to class, but those who transfer knowledge.
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Gitonga Mukunji, a Manyatta MP, claimed he had spoken with Education CS Ezekiel Machogu about the dismal admissions at St Marks Teachers College in Kigari and suggested measures to help the massive school.
Rift Valley triumphed in a low-key event hosted at Thogoto Teachers’ College over the weekend during the baseball games.
The region earned 26 points by winning both the men’s and women’s trophies. Nyanza came in third with 18 points, followed by Western with 22.
With 16 points, Central Region took the fourth position, followed by Nairobi (13) in fifth, Eastern (12) in sixth, and Coast in seventh with 6 points.
After defeating Western’s Kibabii, who finished in second place, 17-15, and Central’s Thogoto, who finished in second place, 27-21, Rift Valley, which was also named the most disciplined team, won the men’s handball championship.
In women’s soccer, the area was similarly dominant, as Kericho defeated Kaimosi from Western by a score of 3-0.
The third-placed Kilimambogo women’s soccer team from Central defeated Egoji from Eastern 4-0.
In a closely contested game of women’s netball, Asumbi from Nyanza defeated Eregi from Western by a score of 44-43.
For third place, Kericho defeated Shanzu 39-19 in the playoffs.
In men’s volleyball, Nyanza’s Rachuonyo defeated Kagumo, and in the playoffs, Kericho defeated Kibabii to finish third.
Asumbi won the women’s goal ball competition after winning all three of their matches and accumulating nine points, with Machakos coming in second. In third place was Kagumo, followed by Mosoriot in fourth.
Kenya Institute of Special Education (KISE), which picked up four points, tied Asumbi, who had less goals, for first place in the men’s goalbBall competition, but had a better goal difference. Kagumo finished third.
Games and Sports In Teachers’ Colleges in Jeopardy
