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Labour education and training in Kenya predates the establishment of the Tom Mboya Labour College (TMLC).

The earliest efforts towards having a formal institution for training trade union leaders and workers on labour issues was the establishment of the Department of Workers’ Education at the Central Organization of Trade Unions-Kenya (COTU-K) in 1974.

The Department became largely responsible for putting in place the structures for the commencement of the renowned COTU (K)’s Study Circle Programme in 1978.

This saw the beginning of structured educational programmes which were offered on regular and frequent basis to trade union leaders and shopfloor workers.

The success of this early programme promoted the need to establish a more comprehensive and intensive programmes of study for trade union leaders and workers.

The ultimate aim was to equip trade unionists, and the rank and file with the skills, knowledge and competencies required in an increasingly complex and dynamic working environment.

It was this desire coupled with inadequacies of existing educational programmes that led COTU (K) to establish the TMLC in 1983. Tom Mboya Labour College was established as a residential college devoted exclusively to the educational needs of trade union leaders and members at large.