The Ministry of Education (MoE) is currently working on a framework that will formally recognize and define the place of alumni associations in educational institutions.
The cabinet secretary for education Julius Ogamba said this during the inaugural meeting of the Wajir High School Alumni at the Bomas of Kenya, Nairobi while joined by Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, Musalia Mudavadi.
He commended the Wajir High School alumni for their initiative to form an alumni association to support their former school in terms of resource mobilization and mentorship of current students and teachers.
Alumni are an institution’s most loyal supporters. Alumni are fundraising prospects. Currently, only alumni associations in public and private universities have been recognised by law; the Universities Act, 2012.
The Universities Act, 2012 outlines that a university may establish an alumni association which may consist of graduates of the institution and such other persons as may be declared to be members under the charter.
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Last year two university graduates petitioned the National Assembly to amend the Basic Education Act to provide for registration, regulation and recognition of alumni of basic education institutions.
If the petition sails through, alumni associations of ECDEs, primary and secondary schools will be recognised by law.
The event was also graced by the Governor of Wajir County and Chairperson of the Council of Governors, Ahmed Abdullahi, Wajir Senator Mohamed Abbas Sheikh, Wajir East MP Mohamed Aden Daud and Wajir West MP Farah Yusuf Mohamed.
By Felix Wanderi.
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