Increase investment in education, private sector urged

 

Students at Safaricom Stadium in Kasarani, Nairobi where Pope Francis addressed youths on Friday. Kenya should borrow a leaf from Finnish education system that is free and technology-based. PHOTO | EVANS HABIL 

DAILY NEWS Reporter in Mbeya 
OWNERS of private schools here have been advised to invest more in the education sector by ensuring that the Region has good number of schools from nursery to higher learning institutions.

The advice was given by the Mbeya District Commissioner (DC), Nyerembe Munasa, who also insisted that their investment should be competitive, the ultimate goal being to bring positive changes in the education sector.

He gave the advice over the weekend during graduation ceremony at Gamaliel Primary School, adding that their investment has been more on nursery and primary education.

Munasa said there is need for investors to look into possibilities of expanding their investment in the education sector to secondary school and higher learning institutions as well.

He said much as the government is increasing schools from primary to higher learning, but it needs the private sector as well to join efforts to ensure that each and everybody gets education.

“It is wise if you venture into higher studies as well, since students you groom from primary will keep on being under your care to secondary schools and if all goes well to higher learning as well,” he said.

He insisted on the need for parents to invest on their children’s education saying that is the lifetime prize they will live to remember. The head teacher, Edward Olesaka, said the school will strive to give best education that will make the graduates differ academically.