Ensure equitable supply of school textbooks

Primary school head teachers select textbooks during the 14th annual Kenya Primary Schools Head Teachers Association conference in Mombasa last week. [Gideon Maundu, Standard]

When the Government rolled out the Sh7 billion book project, there was a collective sigh of relief from parents and learners. Parents felt relieved because the burden of buying textbooks would be partially taken off their heavy shoulders, while relief for learners was that relevant course books would be made available and distributed in such a manner that sharing did not negatively affect learning and performance.

But as with so many other noble projects before, the execution of the book project appears to have been shambolic.