Students in the past. [PHOTO/the-star.co.ke]

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The government is set to borrow more money to fund education in the country.

Kenya will borrow Sh20.5 billion from the World Bank in a move to finance the Secondary Education Quality Improvement Project starting January.

The six-year project will go towards improving education in 30 counties that face extreme poverty, low child retention rates as well as low rates of primary-secondary school transition.

The project is set to coincide with the nationwide roll-out for the new education curriculum.

Some 600,000 pupils in upper primary levels 7 and 8 and a similar number of secondary school students in the four grades will benefit from the new programme.