Education
Cabinet Secretary Prof Jacob Kaimenyi will preside over the launch that
will bring together key local and international stakeholders in the
education sector.
The participants of the event, to be
held at the Hilton Hotel, will discuss the successes and challenges of
the last 15 years of the EFA movement.
The EFA Global
Action Week is a worldwide annual campaign organised by the Global
Campaign for Education (GCE) to raise awareness on Education for All.
This year’s theme is, teaching and learning: Achieving quality for all.
There
have been concerns that the achievement of the EFA goals suffered from
the lack of financing by governments and donors while spending and
expenditure on education has insignificantly changed since 1999.
According to the 2015 Global Monitoring Report, “Donors largely failed on their commitment to deliver aid more effectively.”
This
is despite earlier commitments that no governments with a credible plan
to achieve the EFA goals would be allowed to fail for lack of
financing.
FREE EDUCATION
The
report observed that low priority placed on investment in education has
contributed to the failure to attain goals that the global community
set itself to achieve in 2015.
These challenges are
particularly common in developing countries. Kenya for instance, had a
success story when the free education programme was started in 2003. The
number of pupils enrolled in primary schools has almost doubled, from
the time the programme was introduced.
It is however
disturbing that thousands of pupils who sat their Kenya Certificate of
Primary Education examination, have repeatedly missed places in
secondary schools. The transition to secondary remains a big problem
facing the Free Primary Education Programme.
Head-teachers
have also been forced to borrow funds and cutting down on feeding and
crucial learning activities to survive due to delayed disbursement of
free education cash.
The report’s findings on the
global picture of the education sector, are a pointer that the next
education agenda should more clearly emphasize quality and equity. This
is because equity in access and in the quality of education remain a
huge problem.
“Education is a right, yet it is still
denied to 72 million children who are out of school and to 759 million
adults who are not able to read and write,” the Global Monitoring Report
states
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