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Sitta vows to stamp out primary dropouts
2006-01-18 08:07:23
By Guardian Reporter
Setting strategies in place to ensure all enrolled pupils in primary schools finalize their studies will be one of the major task for the new Minister for Education and Vocational Training, Margreth Sitta.
The minister set out the goal as her immediate predecessor, Joseph Mungai, handed over the ministry to her on Monday.
The new minister called on parents to closely monitor educational development of their children, as it was important.
To ensure kids don’t drop out of school, she said, parents would have to work hand in hand with her ministry.
’School dropouts is one of the malaise of primary education that we must tame,’ she said.
The government had taken affirmative efforts to increase boys/girls enrollment ratio in secondary schools, she said and urged guardians to play their part in ensuring children attend classes throughout the year.
She said education was a key to good life and the best gift the society could bestow to its children.
The minister promised to maintain and develop achievements recorded in the education sector during the third phase government.
Former Education Minister Joseph Mungai said primary school enrollment ratio increased from 4.3m in 2 000 to 7.5m last year
’This was a drastic rise prompted by reforms championed by the third-phase government. We managed to increase enrolment ratio by 95 per cent,’ Mungai said.
Secondary enrolment ratio, Mungai said increased from 200,000 students in the year 2 000 to 500,000 students last year.
The rate of passes in secondary schools raised up to 62 per cent, from 22 per cent in the said period, he said.
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