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Stakeholders split over State wish to ban boarding primary schools

Education

By Standard Team | Dec 08, 2022

**Delegates at the Kenya Primary School Headteachers Association (Kepsha) conference in Mombasa.** [File, Standard]

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.

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