
Ministry Kicks Off Door-to-Door Search for Missing Pupils to Boost Secondary School Enrollment
The government is taking measures to ensure that all primary school graduates in Kenya transition to secondary schools, including conducting a door-to-door search for students who have not shown up despite receiving calling letters.
To achieve the 100% transition rate, the government is working with educationists, political leaders, and the clergy to inform parents that secondary education is free and that textbooks are also provided at no cost.
Parents are only expected to provide school uniforms and lunch money. However, the low transition rate is attributed to a lack of information about the government’s offer of free secondary education in day schools.
In Narok County, the commissioner reported that 1,200 learners are missing, and the secondary school admission rate is at 93%, indicating that the remaining 7% of students did not report despite the government’s free day secondary education announcement.
However, the commissioner did not provide a gender-based breakdown of the number of missing students. Narok and Kilifi counties’ leaders support the government’s initiative to search for missing pupils, and they are urging parents to ensure that their children attend school.
Kilifi County has a transition rate of 95%, but 30% of the children in the county were still at home as of last week. The leaders in Kilifi have expressed concern that parents are interfering with the transition rate by neglecting their children.
hey are calling for the government to arrest parents who fail to take their children to school as an example to others.
The education cabinet secretary has also expressed concern about the low transition rate in Kilifi and Kwale counties, and he has announced that the ministry officials will team up with their counterparts from the interior ministry to investigate the issue.
To achieve a 100% transition rate, the government will also work with parents, guardians, and leaders to ensure that every candidate who sat the assessment at grade six transits to grade seven.
This initiative is part of the government’s plan to improve the quality of education in the country and ensure that all students have access to quality education. It is also aimed at reducing the number of out-of-school children and ensuring that every child has an opportunity to achieve their full potential.
Ministry Kicks Off Door-to-Door Search for Missing Pupils to Boost Secondary School Enrollment