Experts push for a single fund to make learning free

Roots Academy students at Uhuru Park Bus terminus waiting to board a matatu as schools open, April 27, 2026. [Kanyiri Wahito, Standard]

Education stakeholders are pushing for the consolidation of school bursaries to create a national education fund to guarantee free and compulsory basic education for all children.

They assert that harmonising fragmented education bursary schemes into a single, centralised fund would improve efficiency, reduce corruption in the education sector and ensure equitable access to children while aiding in the government’s ambitious 100 per cent transition.