In an effort to alleviate the falling academic standards in Kiambu County, there is need for more day secondary schools in the region.
Kiambu County education director Boniface Gitau says there is need for leaders in the area to strategise and put up more day secondary schools since many local parents could not afford to pay the high fees charged in boarding schools.
He said more than 1,000 children who sat for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) could not get admission into the few available public secondary schools.
Gitau observes that education is a prerequisite for development and the political leadership should work with the people and enhance the construction of day schools as they were affordable.
He expressed fear that due to lack of adequate day schools in the area, there was a danger of young people being lured into child labour.
Gitau, however, hailed the Senior Chief Koinange High School administration for allowing two classes that were not being fully used to be converted into a day secondary school last year.
He said that the mixed class was started in January 2014 and within the first week, one hundred students, whom he said may not have had an opportunity to proceed for secondary education, had enrolled.
Ndumberi High School which was also started mid last year now has students up to form four. The school which has two streams has absorbed primary school leavers who were not admitted to public secondary schools.