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Stakeholders in the education sector are split on the government's move to ban boarding schools for grades One to Nine learners.
Principal Secretary for Basic Education, Dr Belio Kipsang, while addressing the Kenya Primary School Headteachers Association (Kepsha) conference in Mombasa on Tuesday, expressed the desire by the government to bring down the cost of learning by doing away with boarding schools for the classes.
Kipsang said less than five percent of public primary schools nationwide had boarding facilities, adding that the government also wanted to adopt day schooling for Junior Secondary School under the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC).
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