Kenya’s education sector has faced escalating infrastructure pressures culminating in ove…
Motion text
THAT, aware that, Kenya’s education sector has faced escalating infrastructure pressures culminating in overstretched facilities, particularly in boarding schools; concerned that, despite the introduction of an online learner placement portal in December 2025 by the Ministry of Education to widen access and expedite transfers among schools, there continues to be inequitable outcomes, disproportionately disadvantaging rural learners who suffer digital exclusion; acknowledging that, parental preference for Category 1 (C-1) and Category 2 (C-2) schools owing to their improved infrastructure, including boarding amenities, causes over-enrolment in C-1 and C-2 schools; recalling that, during the inaugural admission of Grade 10 learners into Senior Schools in January 2026 under the Competency Based Curriculum, some C-1 and C-2 schools invariably admitted learners at double or more of their approved capacity; noting that, this tendency leaves most Category 3 (C-3) and Category 4 (C- 4) schools severely under-enrolled, some below their viable enrolment capacity; concerned that the current capitation model based on the number of learners per school is not only misaligned with actual school facilities but also encourages over-enrollment by some schools in pursuit of higher capitation funding; observing that, the resultant overcrowding in C-1 and C-2 schools has eroded the recommended teacher-to-student ratio of 1:40, fueled teacher burnout; diminished instructional quality; affected individual learner attention; overstretched facilities; and compromised learner-safety in cases of emergencies; now therefore, this House resolves that, the Ministry of Education, in collaboration with other relevant government agencies and stakeholders— (i) recalibrates the education capitation formula to reflect actual infrastructural capacity and ensure that schools receive proportional and equitable capitation so as to incentivise enrolment diversification and achieve equitable distribution of learners across the school categories; (ii) develops and enforces guidelines for capping the number of streams per category of schools at a maximum of ten for C-1 schools, eight for C-2, five for C-3, and three for C-4 schools, with each stream not exceeding forty students; and (iii) implements a targeted and accelerated infrastructure upgrade programme in C-3 and C-4 schools, including classrooms, laboratories, ICT hubs, boarding sanitation and amenities so as to achieve infrastructure standardisation across all categories of schools, safeguard the quality of education, and systematically eliminate overcrowding in C-1 and C-2 schools.
Tracker remarks
Awaiting debate
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