Despite the consensus amongst all stakeholders of the critical need for action in the higher education sector in Kenya, national and institutional drives for quality have had limited impact. This study aims to assess the barriers to enhancing quality in Kenyan higher education, drawing on interviews...
NAIROBI, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- The torching of dormitories by enraged high school students has triggered a new crisis in Kenya's education sector as national leaders, experts and investors intensify the call for a durable solution to the menace. By Monday, an estimated 120 schools across Kenya...
NAIROBI, May 3 (Xinhua) -- The Kenyan government is implementing reforms in the education sector to support a skills-driven socio-economic transformation, an official said on Tuesday. Fred Matiangi, Cabinet Secretary for Education, Science and Technology, said an ongoing curriculum review was part...
The education sector in Kenya is a big source of allied jobs, with the hundreds of billions of shillings spent in the country each year filtering through to almost all sectors of the economy. As the year wore on, many were left licking their wounds, be it suppliers, workers and the ins...
This was the start of liberalisation of the education sector in independent Kenya. Still, the government invested minimally in education, leading to proliferation of schools established by communities under theHarambee(pooling together) mantra.
“The 2024 academic year in Kenya faced significant disruptions, stemming from funding delays, natural disasters, industrial action, and social unrest, severely affecting learning activities across the country.” Seven major events in Education Sector in Ghana in 2024, Ghana Web 2024 Review: Major ev...
the Ministry of Education, UNESCO, and Huawei formed a collaborative initiative to provide sustainable Internet connectivity. Ensuring no child is left behind – that is the driving force behind this project,” said Martin Kungania, Deputy Director, Education National Coordinator for Kenya's Digital ...
Blaming the poor: constructions of marginality and poverty in the Kenyan education sectormarginalizationeducation policypovertyKenyaSouth AfricaThe article examines how blame and disconnection from the lives of the poor feature in a nexus of ideas about implementing education policy articulated by education...
Section 1 presents a brief overview of education reforms in Kenya over the past two decades. Section 2 focuses on the challenges facing rural schools in Kenya. Section 3 discusses the design and implementation of EMACK II and Sect. 4 presents the impact and outcomes of the EMACK II ...
While most attention has been given to the primary sector, this article shifts the focus to post-compulsory secondary education. The study investigates how quality is conceptualised in Kenyan secondary education policy documents, and critically examines the influence of the global discourse of ...