TIFA CEO Maggie Ireri[kenyatoday.co.ke]
Kenyans are hoping for improvement in the education sector in the country in 2018.
According to survey by Trends and Insights For Africa TIFA released on 3rd January 2018, 70 per cent of Kenyans are optimist that the primary and secondary education will improve while 69 per cent hopes that the improvement will also be witnessed in the institution of higher learning.
TIFA chief executive Maggie Ireri said that this is due to reforms that have been made in the sector.
“These high expectations are recorded on the backdrop of a number of reforms in the education sector,” noted Ireri.
“The changes in this sector include the expected introduction of a new curriculum, new textbook policy and stringent measures that have secured the integrity of national examinations,” stated a report from TIFA adding that in higher learning, the signing of lecturers’ CBA would end a protracted battle which had interrupted learning in the institutions.
The survey has also indicated that the Education Cabinet Secretary, Fred Matiang’i has been praised and condemned in equal measure for his decisions on the Education sector.
However, according to the survey, Nominated Member of Parliament and secretary general of Kenya National Union of Teachers Wilson Sossion, is among officials who registered displeasure.