School heads, boards trained on managing funds

Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha in a classroom at Olympic Primary School in Kibera, Nairobi, on January 4. [File, Standard]

Primary school headteachers and board members will undergo fresh training on financial management to protect free education billions under their custody.

This comes as it emerged that most members of Boards of Management (BoM) in the 23,000 primary schools do not have basic financial and record keeping literacy, leading to poor accountability and wastage.