Muranga County education performance has witnessed continuous improvement in both primary and secondary institutions for the last four years, stated Muranga County Director of Education Anne Kiilu.
The cordial working relationship between teachers, partners and stakeholders, Anne said, has immensely contributed to the impressive academic performance in the county.
Parents, she added, were also brought in more and strongly encouraged to actively take part in their children’s education and be able to discuss issues involving their children.
“Indiscipline issues have also tremendously reduced. We are now able to sensitize everyone for the betterment of education in Muranga County,” said Anne.
Addressing Muranga County secondary school heads in Mombasa during this year’s Muranga County Secondary School Heads Association (KESSHA) conference, the Director stated that the annual summit was meant to discuss issues to do with education in Muranga.
As an education fraternity, she said they were able to audit themselves, look at their challenges, weaknesses and strengths and forge a way forward at the end of the conference that was going to make Muranga education to be effective and efficient.
“Muranga KESSHA is strong and focused, with people who are hands on. Our county is made up of 323 principals who are passionate about improving education performance in the county.” Anne added.
The principals, she said, have students at heart and are able to listen to the various education offices and partner with other people and institutions with same interests to grow Muranga County education.
“As a county, the education office, KESSHA and other stakeholders, we try to make one great team because that is the way to go.” She emphasized.
Highlighting on how the education office support schools in Muranga and their principals to effectively and efficiently perform their functions, she said as an office, they have set up programs for assessment and that they carry out different types of assessment in schools including the standard assessment to better understand the schools’ positions, performance and the students.
“We get to a school and look at areas of weaknesses, sectors where they need to improve and where they are doing well. We later on do a report and then call other stakeholders, mainly Board of Management, BOMs, and schools’ administrators and discuss what we found before giving them the report for implementation.” She explained.
She however noted that the county was still battling with early girl child pregnancies and that it was something together with the Ministry of Interior they were fighting to significantly reduce.
The county education office has partnered with organizations and interested individuals to carry out a sensitization campaign and educate both school going boys and girls on matters early sex and pregnancies so as to minimize the cases.
Another challenge faced in the county, she added was the landslides experienced in the county that heavily affected schools and children thus a negative implication on the education sector in the county.
Come second term, the Director said, they will use the time to adequately prepare for the national exams, sports and music festivals and take part in other co-curriculum activities that positively build students.
By George Otieno
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