How Gov’t Will Fund Pre-primary, Primary & JSS – Per learner
A proposal by the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms would combine pre-primary, primary, and junior secondary education into one entity known as comprehensive schools.
The new head (principal), as was the case under 8-4-4, will oversee operations at all three levels of the school as well as grades one through eight. This suggests that the institution’s principal will plan and oversee the injection of millions of shillings into the facilities.
The Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms has advocated for government capitation for preschoolers as well.
The group has also recommended that capitation per child be examined.
The team recommends adding the principal as a signatory to the bank accounts for the preschool, elementary, and junior schools.
Comprehensive schools will be supported by a combination of money from government capitation, a minimum essential package, parental contribution, and other sources.
Government funding for institutions will be dispersed in two tiers, as opposed to 8-4-4. The committee recommends increasing capitation, the first level, which will be based on a school’s enrollment.
The alternative suggestion is to provide a flat-rate package called a minimum essential package, which will vary based on the level of education.
Under the updated capitation, each nursery school student will receive Sh1,170 from the government each year.
Every student in primary school will earn Sh2,238 annually, and junior high school students will receive Sh15,043. Each senior high school student will get around Sh22,527 each year. Students with special needs will receive an additional subsidy of Sh604 for nursery schools and an additional allocation of Sh3,624 for primary school students.
In junior secondary and senior school, students with exceptional needs will get an additional Sh10,000.
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The majority of the funding for the comprehensive school in public institutions will come from the government, but there will also be additional support channels for allocating monies.
How Gov’t Will Fund Pre-primary, Primary & JSS – Per learner
According to a report by The Standard, the team’s goal is to improve the procedure and sources of funding for educational institutions.
Following is the bare-bones basic package. This will help fund universities with a limited enrolment because it will pay for educational expenses regardless of enrollment at the institutions.
Sh70,200 will be allocated for pre-primary education, Sh536,880 for primary education, Sh1,632,120 for junior high school, Sh1,890,000 for senior high school, and Sh2,060,940 for special needs education. This means that as part of the minimum necessary package, a comprehensive school will receive a total of Sh2,239,200.
The team requests that the ministry of education hire accountants and accounting assistants to ensure the careful management of the significant funding. If everything goes as planned, there will be a significant increase in the workforce in comprehensive schools.
44,496 nursery school teachers currently reside in primary schools, according to TSC data;
In primary schools, there are 223,296 instructors at work. The Teachers Service Commission predicts that by 2024, there would be a demand for 120,923 junior secondary schools, up from the current demand of 70,430.
Thus, 390,000 instructors may be employed in comprehensive schools by 2024.
