Education cabinet secretary Fred Matiang'i. [Photo/nation.co.ke]
In a bid to restore sanity to the education sector and streamline learning in primary and secondary schools, Education cabinet secretary announced a raft of measures, rules, and regulations that must be adhered to moving forward.
He ordered that primary and secondary schools that border each other to have one board and one headteacher as opposed to how things were before.
The straight-talking CS also announced that the government will provide textbooks to schools and warned teachers against asking parents to buy books.
Both measures have been met with a strong backlash from teachers and players in the publishing industries.
''The move to have primary and secondary schools to have a centralized management is going to result in job losses. I am totally against that move.'' Patrick Mwasimbe, Taru Primary School headteacher told a local radio station.
Booksellers have also decried the provision of free textbooks to schools saying that the move will kill the publishing industry which employs many Kenyans.
''The government should think about us booksellers. We have families to feed.'' Jonathan Mwadime says.