Kenya prides itself in its large pool of professional workers, trained both within the country and in institutions in Europe, North America, Australia and other parts of the world. For years, Kenya has produced well-educated professionals, fluent in English and highly trained in various fields. Kenya holds the distinction of having the highest number of university and college educated English speaking professionals in East Africa.

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Kenya prides itself in its large pool of professional workers, trained both within the country and in institutions in Europe, North America, Australia and other parts of the world. For years, Kenya has produced well-educated professionals, fluent in English and highly trained in various fields. Kenya holds the distinction of having the highest number of university and college educated English speaking professionals in East Africa.

Kenya has a well developed education system, with the primary language of instruction being English. There exists a large pool of English speaking workers, trained in various professions. There are over 11 universities, 4 polytechnics, 41 technical training institutions, and several management training institutions in the country.

Information Technology degrees are offered by most of Kenyan universities, while diploma courses are also offered by both the public and private sector technical and management training institutions. Kenya therefore has skilled personnel in the IT profession, including computer programmers, software developers, hardware maintenance engineers, systems analysts, and I T consultants. The Kenya Government has also started training its own staff on IT related subjects and proposes mainstreaming of IT training within all schools, colleges and universities.