Education stakeholders at the coast have asked the national government to scrap KCPE

Education stakeholders at the coast have asked the national government to scrap KCPE

The education stakeholders at the Coast have asked the government to scrap KCPE to allow primary school dropouts to continue with their education. Speaking a day after Tanzania changed its education policy to make Kiswahili language part of subject to be taught in secondary school,  Mr. Dan Aloo who is the KNUT Coast executive member reiterated that free and compulsory education from nursery to university has made countries like Cuba to rank among developed countries.

Speaking separately Gabriel Katana a lecturer at Pwani University said that the government should begin looking at ways and means to make education affordable and accessible to all Kenyans. He further stated that if the government intends to retain exams, a policy for financing basic education should be put in place to remove the fees burden from parents.

Others who supported the scrapping of KCPE are: Kenya National Association of Parents, Mr. Masau Ndunda who emphasized on the implementation of Kenya Basic Education Act.

Pwani University lecturer, Mr. Josephat Mwatela asked the county governments to invest more funds towards financing education.