A teacher in Ewesit teaching under a tree in a mobile school in Turkana, Kenya. [Photo: UNESCO]United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has cited poor regulations, poor infrastructure, shortage of teachers and discrimination as some of the issues that make Kenya lag behind in provision of quality basic education.Through the latest Global Educational Monitoring report released on Tuesday, the report highlights a host of many issues that affect the quality of basic education in Kenya and other countries in sub-Sahara Africa.The report states that in sub-Saharan Africa, 41 percent of children of primary school age do not complete basic education while 87 percent do not reach the minimum proficiency level in reading."It is government's responsibility to provide universal quality education. Accountability is indispensable in achieving this goal," Manos Antoninis director of the GEM report told the Star on Tuesday.The report further found that despite progress made in recent years, many countries are struggling to cater for their poorest children, adds the paper.Quoting the World Inequitable Database on Education, the report points out that the percentage of out of school children in Kenya is three percent in primary, nine percent in lower primary and 27 percent in upper secondary.

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