CS Education Machogu during the visit at Kereri Girls
By Elizabeth Angira
Education Cabinet Secretary, Ezekiel Machogu has said the national transition rate for grade six learners who sat for the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) to junior secondary school stands at 96 percent.
Speaking during a monitoring exercise at Bobaracho primary school in Kisii Central Sub County, the CS said the government has stepped up efforts to ensure 100 percent transition for learners in junior and senior secondary schools.
Machogu appealed to the county and sub county education officials as well as the Ministry of Interior to assist in mopping up the few learners who had not sought admission to secondary schools.
The CS noted the mop up exercise is a multi-agency assignment and all the relevant stakeholders must ensure the students report to various schools in the course of the week.
He told the school heads to allow the junior secondary learners to retain the uniform they wore in primary schools until the parents are able to afford new ones.
“Let us use the available resources we have “, said CS.
Mr. Machogu noted they have distributed textbooks worth 17 million to junior secondary schools countrywide adding the books will cover all the subjects taught in Grade Seven.
He added they have partnered with the World Bank to build 80,000 laboratories at a cost of 10 billion and this will meet about 40 percent of the Ministry’s requirement.
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