Teachers face burden of enrollment surge

Mary Immaculate Primary School celebrates its top pupils Richard Onyango who scored 441 marks and Chelsea Kwamboka who scored 439 marks in KCPE with a mkokoteni (cart) pulled by their headteacher Sr Faith Mbatia in grey sweater during the schools celebration. The school had 19 students with over 400 marks on November 23. [David Gichuru, Standard]

Teachers are bracing for a major task as enrollment in all the 8,000 secondary schools hits three million next year.

The government projects that 246,133 students will join secondary schools as it implements free secondary education and pushes for 100 per cent transition. Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i said this week that the Government had set aside Sh56 billion to roll out free secondary education starting January 2018.