Students in a class. Photo/the-star.co.ke
Jubilee and NASA have been warned that free secondary education will not improve the quality of education in the country.
According to lobby group Twaweza East Africa, the sector is largely affected by other factors that mar the quality of education students receive.
This is after NASA nad Jubilee promised that once in power they will implement the free secondary education.
"We have had free primary education for 14 years, yet close to one million eligible pupils are out of school today," said Twaweza county director Emmanuel Manyasa.
He noted that education is derailed by poor infrastructures, such as the lack of libraries, laboratories and classrooms.
He called on politicians to look into the cost of education before making the promise.
"Blanket free secondary education will similarly collapse public secondary education the way public primary school education did in 2003.
"This will create differential quality education for the children of the rich who will migrate to private schools."