By Dennis Bett
Stakeholders and education experts in Uasin Gishu have expressed their satisfaction over increased enrollment and higher transition to secondary education,
This follows an analysis that showed a total of 17, 000 students who sat KCPE in 2017 in the County have been placed in secondary schools.
According to County Director of Education Dr. Nicodemus Anyang the figure represents 79 per cent of the students from the county who has joined secondary schools.
“We have not hit the target due to misconceptions by a few parents who thought boarding schools were also free failing to secure school fees for their children,” he explained to Education News in his office during an exclusive interview.
At the moment the enrolment in secondary schools in the county is at 55,000 but the figure is expected to rise to 60,000.
He said Day secondary schools were only required to ask parents to pay for lunch and uniform of their children while the National Government catered for the other levies.
“Form One students are supposed to be admitted at no fees and willing students are allowed to carry own packed lunch because it is not compulsory to pay for the meal in school,” he observed.
The Director urged parents and guardians to seize the opportunity of free secondary education and take their children to school.
