Mombasa Deputy Governor Dr William Kingi. Facebook.co./William Kingi
The county government of Mombasa will increase the bursary allocation for students to curb school drop-out rates due to lack of school fees.
Deputy Governor Dr William Kingi said the move aims at ensuring more students and pupils enroll for studies and increase the enrollment to secondary and other tertiary institutions.
"The county government of Mombasa in collaboration with other stakeholders shall increase the allocations for the county bursary kitty to ensure that no student stays at home because of school fees," he said.
"We would also urge the parents to have a total change of attitudes towards schools outside Mombasa and allow their children to further their education in the schools they are called to. We also urge the government to ameliorate the infrastructure of our local schools, improve the staffing levels and as well upgrade more day local county schools to boarding schools."
He said most parents fail to enroll their students in National and extra provincial schools due to negative prejudicial opinions regarding the religious and cultural standings of such schools.
"They feel that mixing with students from other religious and cultural backgrounds may compromise the religious ideals of their children," he said as he joined education stakeholders in a consultative meeting.
Mombasa is among counties with the lowest enrollment rolls to high school. By Monday (January 22) only 70 percent of students admitted to high school had reported to school.