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Meanwhile, the government has distributed 32million textbooks to both primary and secondary schools in the last year, with Kakamega County topping the list with 1.7 million books.
A report by the Ministry of Education indicates that textbooks for four subjects in primary school and six subjects in secondary school were distributed to schools in all the 47 counties.
That report indicates that 31 million textbooks have been given to learners, while 579,408 primary teacher’s guides and 310,464 secondary teachers’ guides have been issued to tutors.
The books were distributed under the World Bank-funded Secondary Education Quality Improvement Project (SEQIP), which seeks to improve the quality of education in the country.
“In this regard, approximately 600,000 students in upper primary classes Seven and Eight; 600,000 students in the four grades of secondary level, Form one to four; and about 17,000 primary and 8,500 secondary Science, Mathematics and English (SME) teachers in targeted schools have been targeted by the project,” said Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed in a report to the National Assembly’s Education Committee.
Ms Mohamed said the beneficiaries are from 7,852 public primary schools and 2,147 public secondary schools in 110 sub-counties in 30 counties, which are considered educationally and economically disadvantaged.
The data indicate that Bungoma County has received the second highest number of books at 1,612,265, Kisii County has received 1,308,330 while Nakuru got 1,356,341 books.
