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The key to the evaluation of polytechnics lies in their capacity to create a new understanding of the opportunities in the rural areas for their students, and their ability to build upon this by providing sufficient training to exploit such opportunities, rather than the ability merely to provide skill training for wage employment as it is currently recognised

The need for training which complements the established formal school system in Kenya is indicated by the growth of the National Youth Service, youth centres and village polytechnics. This paper contends that the particular significance of the village polytechnic movement lies not simply in its reflection of the 'Harambee' spirit and its role in vocational training, but also in the fact that it may contain the first faint stirrings of a new educational ideology for Kenya. The purpose of the paper is to identify from the recent experience of polytechnics some of the significant features of this emerging ideology