Governor Ahmed Abdullahi Promises on Education And Vocation Training

Governor Ahmed Abdullahi Promises on Education And Vocation Training

1.21. Education, Skills, Literacy and Infrastructure
The net enrolment rates and gross enrolment rates for pre-primary (ECDE), primary, secondary and post- secondaryeducation are provided below:
1.21.1.Pre-School Education (Early Childhood Development Education)
The County has 252 public ECDE centres and 64 private ones. The ECDE enrolments are estimated at 19,239 whilethe total number of ECDE teachers are 413. The teacher pupil ratio in the pre-primary school is 1:29. The totalenrolment in the public and private ECDEs is 16,005. The pre-primary retention rate is 99 percent with a drop-out rateof 0.2 per cent while the transition rate is 99 per cent.
1.21.2.Primary Education
There are 231 primary schools of which 181 are public and 50 private. The primary school age population is estimated at 46,178. Therefore, there is a strain on existing facilities with some public primary schools and their respective preprimary units sharing some facilities. With the population projected to grow to 61,300 in 2017, the county must setaside adequate resources to expand school infrastructure to meet present and future demand

1.21.4.Youth polytechnics
The county has four youth polytechnics, no colleges and no universities. This means that majority of youths cannot acquire technical skills within the county. There is thus need for the establishment of more polytechnics, tertiary colleges and universities


1.21.5.Secondary Education
The county has 43 secondary schools with the number of students standing at about 6028. Mixed schools make up 44 per cent of these, boy schools 31 per cent and girls schools 25 per cent. The number of secondary schools is inadequate hence the low primary to secondary transition rate. 

1.21.6.Tertiary Education
With respect to post-secondary education, the county has built four youth polytechnics in each sub-county and still plans to build the same in each ward. There are three constituent colleges in the county - Kenyatta University, University of Nairobi and Maasai Mara in Saku Sub-county - which offer diploma courses.

1.21.7.Adult and continuing education
The total enrolment stands at 1419 of which 1034 are female and 384 are male. The department is understaffed with only 24 full time teachers and 87-part time teachers.



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