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Basic Education PS Belio Kipsang recently shocked the country when he announced that the government had abolished boarding schools for grades one to nine.
The move, he said, will make education affordable as the schools had become expensive. The shift in policy is one of the recommendations made by the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms in a report presented to President William Ruto.
At a glance, this policy appears excellent, but such a major shift required intense consultations with key education stakeholders and a sessional paper drafted and approved by Parliament. That said, such a decision is not easy to implement. Boarding schools are among the best institutions, offering children a chance to wholly concentrate on their studies and learn how to become independent at an early age.
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