ABSTRACT Board of Management (BoM) is an important organ for school governance or leadership and management structure. Kenya like any other African countries which have undergone decentralization, has only been directing its efforts into devolving the fiscal and physical material entities, while forgetting the people who in reality are meant to assume the management responsibilities at schools. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the effectiveness of Boards of Management in ...
ABSTRACT The Dakar conference of 2000 was concerned with the quality of education and emphasized education for all by 2015 since the UN had declared education a human right. With the increased demand for in-service education and training, SMASSE project was launched in 1998 as a joint technical co-operation between the Government of Kenya through the Ministry of Education and Japan through JICA. Despite the enormous resources geared towards in-servicing of Biology teachers to apply the ASEI ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess constraints on pupils’ transition from primary to public secondary schools in Bureti Sub-County, Kericho County, Kenya. The objectives of this study were to determine trends and performance of national examination and gross enrolment rates in primary schools so as to establish the transition rates from primary to public secondary schools before and after the introduction of secondary school tuition waiver in Bureti sub-county, Kericho County,...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the factors influencing the implementation of free secondary education in the Kangema District. The objectives of the study were to: find out how increased enrolment in public secondary schools affects the quality of free secondary education in Kangema District; find out the impact of physical and material resources on the quality of free secondary education; establish the role played by the community in the implementation of free secondary e...
ABSTRACT The Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examinations indicated consistent poor results between the years 2007-2012 in Loiyangalani district of Marsabit County, Kenya. To reverse this trend effective measures must be designed and implemented at all levels of curriculum management. This calls on all stakeholders in the educational sector and especially the curriculum managers in the area to step up efforts to achieve this. The main purpose of this study was to investigate th...
ABSTRACT Safety of students in schools is not only vital but central to provision and acquisition of quality education in any country. The ministry of Education in Kenya has issued to schools, Safety Standards Manual that should serve as guide to school administrators to ensure there is safe and conducive learning environment in schools. The purpose of the study was, to investigate the implementation of the recommended Safety Standards in public Secondary Schools in Borabu District, Kenya. T...
ABSTRACT The government of Kenya has invested heavily in Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) through establishing new Vocational Training centres (VTCs) as well as upgrading the existing ones to accommodate more youths. However, there are increasing concerns of low enrolment in these VTCs in Elgeyo-Marakwet County. This study was to establish determinants of enrolment in VTCs in ElgeyoMarakwet County. The enrolment levels in these centres over the past five years (2013-2017) h...
ABSTRACT Low literacy skills and performance among primary schools in Kenya have been found to be caused by poor instructional and evaluation methods. To this effect, TUSOME literacy programme undertook to carry out in-service training of lower primary teachers on reading skills with the view to improving literacy skills acquisition among lower primary school pupils. However, there seem to be a disconnect between literacy investment and learner reading achievement in the country and particul...
ABSTRACT The underlying purpose of performance appraisal for teachers is to promote quality teaching and student learning outcomes. However, there is a dearth of research-based literature on dependability of student learning outcomes on performance appraisal for teachers in public secondary schools in Kisii County hence the need for this study whose objectives were to establish the relationships between performance appraisal variants of teacher qualifications, professional development, teach...
ABSTRACT This study sought to assess the effectiveness of KESSP grants on improvement of primary school infrastructure in Kiambu District under the Sector Wide Approach to Programme Planning adopted by the government. The specific objectives of the study were: to survey the current infrastructure situation in the district, to find out specific projects undertaken by various schools, to estimate the relative adequacy of the grants, to investigate the problems faced in disbursement and utilizat...
ABSTRACT Acquiring physics knowledge is the assurance of having a technologically competent workforce in science, technology and engineering especially in this technological era and in line with fulfillment of Vision 2030. However, research shows that Physics is one of the subjects that have experienced poor performance and hence low enrolment at KCSE level in Kenya. This is because students perceive it as being difficult and uninteresting due to its abstract nature. Further, research shows ...
v ABSTRACT Low completion rate and wastage in secondary schools continue to be areas of great concern to school administrators in Katangi Division. Although Free Secondary Education is intended to mitigate a wide scope of these problems, its implementation does not guarantee effective education. The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of the introduction of FSE on the quality of secondary education in Katangi Division, Yatta District. The objectives of the study were: to find o...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at investigating the management challenges facing the implementation of Subsidized Secondary Education in public secondary schools in Mashuuru Sub-County, Kajiado County. The specific objectives of the study were: to determine the effect of physical facilities on quality of secondary education; to establish the influence of instructional materials on quality of secondary education; to investigate how staffing of teachers affects the management of SSE and its implica...
ABSTRACT The study explored issues and challenges facing newly appointed principals in public secondary schools in Mombasa County as they discharge their administrative responsibilities. The main focus was to identify and describe the challenges faced and strategies used by the principals to address challenges. This was done by involving ten respondents (principals) who were sampled using stratified sampling technique. The study was guided by the following research objectives: to establish is...
ABSTRACT Poor performance in English language among students in Kenya has been alarming over the recent past. This has been argued to be the root-cause of the continued decline in performance on other subjects that are learnt and taught in English. One of the major steps that have been taken to enhance the performance in English was the integration of English language and English literature into one subject. However, despite such efforts, the students’ performance in English and other subje...