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Ongeri to Inspect All Trailing Schools

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Published on Monday, 09 January 2012 12:17

EDUCATION minister Sam Ongeri will lead top ministry officials on an inspection tour of counties that performed poorly in last year's Kenya Certificate of Primary Education.

The ministry's director of quality assurance and standards Enosh Oyaya said some of the counties targeted include Kisii, Nyamira, Murang'a and all counties in Coast province except Mombasa.

Speaking to journalists at Kisii Golf Course after an inspection tour of Nyakemincha primary school which came last in KCPE last year, Oyaya said: "We want to meet stakeholders so that we establish the problem and find ways of reversing the trend." "Some counties like Nyamira, Kisii and Murang'a are economically endowed but continue to perform dismally in national examinations. We want to find a solution to this problem," Oyaya said.

Oyaya spent the whole of Friday at Nyakemincha where he held a series of meetings with teachers, pupils and the school management committee. He said the school had been made a Special Measure School and will be closely monitored by the ministry officials. Oyaya said the government is alarmed by the 119 average mark posted by the school which started in 1954.

Oyaya who was accompanied by Livingstone Swaka and Nicholas Oyucho who are his assistants in Nyanza province and local district education officers said problems bedeviling the school involved wrangles between the community and the sponsor. He said the school has not had a stable committee and has been led by ten headteachers in the last 10 years due to the turbulent relationship between the community and the Diocese of Kisii.

Oyaya said the ministry is not rooting for the change of the school's name as it had been proposed by some stakeholders. He said St Peter's Nyakemincha Secondary School which shares the same compound and some facilities with the primary school is the best in Nyamira district and all that was needed is change of heart for the primary to excel.

The school is surrounded by beautiful tea bushes, trees and a serene environment and has permanent buildings, enough desks and is about to access electricity.Nyakemincha Secondary School which is in the same compound has topped KCSE charts in Nyamira for the last five years.