Category: Education

Teso South MP Mary Emase has urged school principals in the sub county to embrace the hybrid learning option to improve the standard of education after the area failed to produce grade ‘A’ plain in the last 10 years.

Speaking at St Joseph’s Chakol secondary during the distribution of bursary cheques to bright and needy students, Emase challenged teachers to do benchmarking on top schools in the region like Butere Girls where the hybrid system has been effective leading to excellence results.

‘Instead of lamenting about the meagre resources at your schools, why don’t you embrace the online learning method which has been tested in best national schools like Butere Girls and is working effectively?’ Emase advised.

The legislator added that ‘the NG-CDF Teso South is ready to procure software and facilitate benchmarking exercise to reclaim the lost golden glory of our sub county where St. Monica Chakol Girls and St. Pauls Amukura were champions in the western region.’

Emase added that it was time for schools a
nd learners to give value for the money noting that it’s worthless to benefit from a bursary scholarship for 4 years and produce grade Es.

‘Let us be realistic sometimes. Why should we give you a scholarship for years only to get an E? It will be better if you just join TVET College after primary and acquire a skill of your choice which will be more useful to you in life,’ she advised.

The progressive NG- CDF Teso South Constituency disbursed a total of Sh64 million education bursary cheques support to various beneficiaries and to help ease pressure on schools which were burdened by huge school fees areas.

‘I want to urge our parents also to be responsible and supportive to our schools in order to ignite positive results. If you are benefiting from both the county and NGCDF bursary, why don’t you clear the fee arrears?’ the legislator urged.

Emase warned parents against failing to shoulder their responsibilities thinking the government would cater fully for the education of their children.

‘Some parents
are not serious as much as we want to blame school principals. Someone with a balance of one thousand overlooks it until it accumulates a huge fee arrear prompting school heads to send students back home,’ she added.

Emase however warned political leaders to keep politics out of schools and not to incite parents against teachers whenever the school produced poor results.

In the last year KCSE exams, Asinge Secondary produced D plain as the best mark in the school with 70% of the students getting grade E, a move that saw parents withdrawing their learners from the school citing poor management and political interference.

Source: Kenya News Agency

Over seven thousand students from Awendo constituency Migori County have received bursaries from the National Government-Constituency Development Funds (NG-CDF).

Speaking during the issuance of the bursary worth Sh 50.5 million to over seven thousand needy students, Awendo Member of Parliament Walter Owino said that the bursary will ensure the needy students get a chance to advance their education careers.

Owino however, pointed out that although the system to award bursaries from the NG-CDF has over time helped needy students’ access education, he was of the opinion that the surest way to help the nation’s education system was to make education free.

‘We had more than eleven thousand applicants for the bursary but our NG-CDF could only cater for the seven thousand. The government needs to prioritise free education to give each child in Kenya a chance to better their education,’ lamented Owino.

The legislature disclosed that they will be lobbying the government to fully take care of the entire education c
ost to help keep needy children in school.

Simeon Makawa, a parent from Awendo Sub County explained that the cost of education for orphans, needy and vulnerable children can become unbearable if they do not get the bursaries.

He called on well-wishers to help support the less privileged children to make society a better place.

Source: Kenya News Agency

Head of Public Service Felix Koskei has urged parents from Nandi County to invest in girl child education for better future and prosperity

Koskei who was speaking at Kapsbet Girls High School during a thanksgiving day stressed that by investing in the girl child the entire community and society was sowing a future of progress for many generations

‘We want to celebrate girls and invest more in their wellbeing and education so that tomorrow they will lead this Country with a lot of knowledge. The surest child who can take good care of their parents and build a prosperous and peaceful society is the girl child.. Boy child disappear along the way but girl child always keep in touch,’ he said

Koskei noted that a girls’ education has direct impact on Country’s social, economic and practical wellbeing adding that an educated mother is very productive in the society.

He advised parents to support their children in school in order for them to excel, saying failure to follow up on academic performance makes childre
n relax resulting in poor performance.

‘The say education is an equalizer and best investment a parent can give to a child. Let us secure the future of our children by giving them the best education and work hand in hand with teachers to ensure they excel,’ he said

Koskei who was accompanied by Basic Education Principal Secretary Dr.Belio Kipsang assured the school administration of Government’s support to improve infrastructure and mentor girls for better results.

Dr.Kipsang congratulated the school for the better performance and learning clean without involving in academic doping.

He said educated girls narrow the gender pay gap, boost workforce participation, and promote self-sufficiency to foster an inclusive society with equal opportunities for all to thrive.

‘When we invest in you, we invest in the future and any good person will invest in future because we want to anchor this Country well. And you are the people who will take this Country to the next level. We shall continue praying for you as par
ents to ensure you excel well,’ he said

Nandi Governor Stephen Sang reaffirmed his steadfast commitment to providing comprehensive support to all educational institutions within the county to enable the schools thrive and succeed academically.

Education stakeholders present noted that investing in girl’s education transforms communities, countries and the entire world adding that girls who receive an education are less likely to marry young and more likely to lead healthy and productive lives.

Source: Kenya News Agency

The international community is aware of Kenya’s significant education reforms, which are gaining support for their implementation.

The World Bank has extended a six years intervention that was to end in December 2023 for an additional year. The Kenya Secondary Education Quality Improvement Project (SEQIP) focuses on the most educationally and economically disadvantaged areas as well as the poorest and most vulnerable children.

The Sh20 Billion project aimed to help the country overcome obstacles in accessing education. The Kenya Country Partnership Strategy focuses on enhancing human capital through education and training.

Elijah Mungai, the projects director at the Ministry of Education, emphasized the importance of providing quality secondary education to enhance the skills of the working population.

The Kenyan Constitution mandates the government to offer free, high-quality Basic Education. The government aims to enhance Basic Education for Sustainable Development by fostering critical thinking, commun
ication, problem-solving, digital literacy, and 21st-century competencies among students.

Speaking in her office, SEQIP project coordinator Jane Mbugua said the project is committed to enhancing transition from primary to secondary education along with retaining students in school up to the age of 18.

Word Bank Africa’s development strategy aims to accelerate the demographic transition and maximize the demographic dividend by enabling more girls in impoverished regions to attend secondary school.

The project addresses challenges such as high school dropout rates in grade seven and eight, low enrollment, particularly among girls, and low transition from primary to secondary school. Ms Mbugua stated that the organization is enhancing the quality and relevance of education in 135 sub-counties in vulnerable and marginalized areas.

The Kenya Vision 2030 envisages a reduction of Illiteracy, increased individual well-being brought about by an education, training, and research that is inclusive and of high qualit
y. The SEQIP project is in line with the World Bank’s global objectives of reducing extreme poverty and promoting sustainable shared prosperity.

The National Education Sector Plan 2018 prioritizes Quality Basic Education as the primary sustainable goal, requiring governments to ensure inclusive and equitable education and lifelong learning opportunities.

Source: Kenya News Agency

Mvita Sub-County Deputy County Commissioner (DCC) Ronald Mwiwawi has beseeched parents not to abandon their parental responsibility lest they destroy their children’s lives.

Speaking at the Ronald Ngala School ground when Mvita MP Mohamed Machele issued cheques amounting to K Sh44 million for the education at least 5000 needy students, The DCC said indiscipline among students was worrying and asked parent to nip the vice before it went out of hand.

He however was optimistic that rate of juvenile-related crimes had gone down in the years 2021 and 2022 as evidenced by the improvement of KCSE performance in last year’s results but challenged parents not to let their guard..

‘This year, new problems has emerged because we accept learners from other constituencies, especially Likoni and Kisauni where moral decency was rife,’ he said, promising to visit Serani, Sacred Heart, and Mvita Boys Secondary schools to read the riot act on learners with indiscipline cases.

At the Likoni crossing channel, he stated, ther
e is a tendency by learners after school to fight without a valid reason ditto at Nyali Bridge. He laid the blame on parents for their children’s behaviours.

The DCC revealed that learners want to turn the Mama Ngina Waterfront into a bawdy house. He noted that both boys and girls carry home clothes in their school bags and later loiter at the waterfront at 8 PM

He urged parents to ensure their children arrive early unless they have remedial classes after discussion with teachers. ‘If a child left school at 5 PM what is he doing at Mama Ngina,’ he asked.

He said some students are bhang addicts in the purview of their parents. ‘As a parent, you will suffer the consequences. Instead of raising criminals, I urge you to raise morally upright children who will assist us in future.’

The DCC calls for collaboration between parents and the security apparatus to tame the unbecoming behaviours. Parents were challenged to monitor their children’s behaviours to improve school performance.

Mvita MP Mohamed Machele ab
solved the constituency children from blame saying 40 per cent of students in the constituency schools are from the neighbouring constituencies and the fist fights are a result of grudges from their localities.

‘We are being branded as criminals yet it is not our children,’ he said.

Machele said plans are at an advanced stage to turn Mama Ngina Secondary School which was moved to Shimo la Tewa into a TVET to impart skills to 70 per cent of form four leavers from the constituency who fail to attain University minimum entry grade.

The legislator challenged parents to motivate their children to work hard in their academics. He further told parents to be responsible despite the tough economic time and not to over-depend on politicians for all their children’s needs like school fare and uniforms.

‘Let carry our responsibilities, when you want a politician from his meagre salary to do all the responsibility it will force him to be corrupt to satisfy the constituents’ demands,’ he said.

Source: Kenya News Agen
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