Stakeholders criticize the poor, sluggish funding for schools.
Stakeholders criticize the poor, sluggish funding for schools. The provision of high-quality education in the nation is nevertheless hampered by inadequate funding for students, late capitation in schools, and poor educational strategies.
Education stakeholders claim that as a result of this issue, education has become more commercialized, placing more responsibility on parents.
To pay for students’ education, they are now calling for increased capitation at all levels of education across the nation.
To meet the needs and demands of schools, the money should, however, be provided promptly.
In addition, the government should prioritize teachers’ security in order to deliver services effectively.
Schools are having trouble keeping students, according to Universities Academic Staff Union (UASU) Secretary General Constante Wesonga, who was speaking at a one-day workshop at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) in Nairobi.
He claimed that despite delayed financing, school administrators are under pressure to support learning in the classroom.
You want the teachers to perish for lack of funds, right? He said, “TSC will replace them the following day because they are walking feeble, some of whom commit suicide.
He accused the government of sending students to schools without adequate funding, which causes the facilities to be overcrowded.
“The ministry sent you students, how do you feed them since no money has come in a month,” he said.
Wesonga also pointed out that boarding school administrators are abusing instructors, and he demanded a policy review to reverse the trend.
“High demand for education, inadequate public schools and unregulated regulations has led to an increase in private schools,” he stated.
In order to address the current teacher shortage, he said that the Teachers Service Commission will be able to hire more teachers with a larger budget.
It is true that there is a scarcity of teachers. We can only address this if we have sufficient resources to provide a better future for our kids,” he said.
The Quality Assurance and Standards Department will be given more authority by the Ministry of Education to improve monitoring and regulation of schools if money is sufficient.
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Wesonga questioned why, causing confusion in tertiary education, the government sent students to universities without funding the institutions.
The stakeholders also want the government to make sure that there are adequate educational institutions developed in remote locations and informal settlements.
Wesonga encouraged the government to guarantee that all citizens had access to a quality education.
He said that administering the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) tests had grown more expensive.
“Each student in pre-primary school will receive Sh1,170. The sum of Sh13 is given for educational materials. The exam download comprises a number of pages,” he stated.
According to Silas Obuhatsa, chairman of the Kenya Parents Association, schools have resorted to shifting the responsibility on parents.
“This allocation is not enough to sustain the education sector given the fact that the population has outgrown the available infrastructure and the 100 percent transition policy by the government,” stated the minister.
Stakeholders criticize the poor, sluggish funding for schools.
