The Ministry of Education (MoE) is riding high following Treasury’s announcement of the 2025/2026 financial year budget estimates which saw the ministry allocated Kshs702.7 billion, a 7 percent increase from last year’s Kshs656.6 billion. This accounts to 28 percent of the total budget.
“Education sector plays a vital role in economic development by enhancing human capital, driving innovation and improving productivity, to this end, the government continues to invest in education to raise learning outcomes and ensure equal opportunity or all. I have proposed a total of Kshs702.7 billion to the education sector, which is almost 28 percent of our entire budget,” said Treasury CS John Mbadi, during the reading of the 2025/2026 budget in parliament.
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) emerged as one of the gainers bagging Kshs387.2 billion, up from kshs358.3 billion. This includes kshs7.2 billion for the recruitment of intern teachers and Kshs980 million earmarked for training of the Competency-Based Education (CBE) instructors.
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The Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) also reaped big, by receiving Kshs41.5 billion, up from Kshs35.9 billion last year, promising broader access to student loans. In efforts to ensure support for university and technical trainers, university scholarships allocation remained at Kshs16.9 billion as Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) scholarships remained at Kshs7.7 billion
Funding for national exams rose to Kshs5.9 billion, a nod to rising assessment and enrollment needs as Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) received Kshs. 28.9 billion, slightly down from Kshs30.7 billion in 2024/25 financial year.
However, free Day Secondary Education dropped from Kshs61.9 billion to Kshs 51.9 billion. On the other hand, Free Primary Education allocation was slashed from Kshs 9.1 billion to kshs7 billion as the school feeding programme retained Kshs 3 billion.
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In a bold move by the government to support Vocational training, Kshs. 1.4 billion was allocated to TVETs to improve infrastructure and projects as Kshs. 1.7 billion was also allocated to primary and Secondary schools for the same.
By Masaki Enock
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