Education Ministry to keep tabs on the 374 Scholarship recipients who quit their studies
The Ministry of Education (MoE) has committed to making sure that 374 Scholarship recipients who left school are re-enrolled when classes start this week.
After performing a week’s worth of cleanup in the Kakuma and Kalobeyei refugee camps in Turkana County, County Director of Education Dr. Henry Lubanga verified that a large number of students have left the refugee camps.
As the second term of the learning program begins, the government will make every effort to find the students and bring them back to the classroom, according to Lubanga.
The scholarship recipients are not enrolled in school for a variety of reasons, including truancy, teenage pregnancies, early marriages, and relocation to other nations.
The education authorities acknowledged that the camp’s students experience several difficulties, but they maintained that those difficulties shouldn’t be used as justification for students to leave their education.
Martha Ekirapa, the national coordinator of the Kenya primary education equity in learning program (KPEEL), said that 330 of the 374 Elimu students come from Equity Group Foundation, while 44 come from Jomo Kenyatta Foundation, which is the scholarship’s implementing partner.
Some of the issues that are interfering with the students’ education were disregarded by her as simply excuses that are not backed up by the ministry’s rules and procedures.
The coordinator highlighted some of the steps taken by the ministry of education to address some of the issues, such as enabling expectant students to continue attending school until the day of delivery and allowing them to return to their studies soon after, in accordance with the ministry of education learner’s re-entry policy.