Implementing free secondary school education will not be easy, Kuppet says.

The Kenya Union of Post Primary Teachers Secretary General Akello Misori addressing the press during the Union's AGM at Chulaimbo Secondary school.He says Implementation of the free Secondary Education in the country as promised by both NASA and Jubilee will not be an easy task by the two parties-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo.

By Dickson Odhiambo.

June 27,2017.

Implementing free secondary school education will not be easy, Kuppet says.

THE Implementation of the free Secondary Education in the country as promised by both NASA and Jubilee will not be an easy task by the two parties, the Kenya Union of Post Primary Teachers has said.

Kuppet Secretary General Akello Misori wonders how the issue of free secondary education will be implemented by both Nasa and Jubilee when either of them take power after this August 8 polls claiming that the current free Primary and the affordable Secondary Education has not been implemented properly by the current Jubilee Government.

Speaking at Chulaimbo Secondary school during the Union’s Annual General Meeting, Misori said he is not in agreement with either of the two when they are telling Kenyans that they will give free secondary education.

Misori says the current government has already been unable to implement free primary education and the affordable secondary school.

He says where the country is in terms of education, the cost of education can be free.

“Going by their manifestoes, I can’t agree with either of the two especially when they talk about giving free secondary education.This is because looking at the current implementation of free primary and affordable secondary education, it is a nightmare,” Misori says.

He says disbursing shs 1,300 per pupil for a whole year under free primary education has been a nightmare.

Misori wonders how the next Government whether Jubilee or Nasa will now give about sh.89,000 per child every year in a public secondary school,adding that this is just an overstatement and the politicians know that Kenyans are very desperate and want free things.

“For example Nasa is saying they will start giving free secondary education in September this year if they form the next Government and the Jubilee is saying they will provide it beginning of January if re-elected but the current has failed to give a tranche shs of 600 per student in secondary school now,” Misori says.

Misori says quality of education will be greatly compromised and delivery on that mandate of quality and affordable education will not be there.

Misori has also taken issues with Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i who has proposed that the government plans to use only a text book in teaching per subject in schools.

The Kuppet Secretary General argues that this is not a good move will be like limiting freedom of thought and marginalizing academics to a narrow scope of understanding.

“We are just telling him that we have to liberalize knowledge so that amount of creativity and all the sort of what it is such that we get the value for our money should be got in diversity. We can regulate what is there in the syllabus and the curriculum but at least there must be freedom to those people who want to contribute to the body of knowledge through so many publishers so that we get value for knowledge,” Misori adds.

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