7 Thika Schools Shortlisted to Benefit From World Bank’s 80B Project.
They are; Thika Muslim Primary School, Jamuhuri Primary
School, Garissa Road Primary School, Athena Primary School, Karibaribi Primary
School, Kisiwa Primary School and Umoja Primary School.
This was revealed by Thika West Sub-County
Director of Education Mr. John Ndundu during the region’s Education
Stakeholders’ meeting held on Wednesday at The Destiny church hall in Thika.
The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) approved the
grant to the Ministry of Education Science and Technology to
help Kenya address key challenges in primary education as well to provide
catalytic funding to help Kenya address areas not yet fully covered by other
initiatives.
The project, scheduled to run up to 2018, was designed with
strategic input from the Education Development Partners Coordination Group
(EDPCG), and builds on piloted programmes supported by both Government and
Development Partners the donors, including Primary Mathematics and Reading (PRIMR)
initiative, Teacher Performance and Integrity in Kenya (TePIK), Education for
the Marginalised Children in Kenya (EMACK) and Education Management Information
System (EMIS).
The project is well aligned with the GPE goals: - Ensuring
that all children master basic literacy and numeracy by early grades; and
building national systems that have capacity and integrity to deliver, support
and assess education quality. It is in line with the GPE focus targeting resources
to the most marginalised groups, including schools with children with
disabilities, schools in rural and nomadic communities in the ASAL with low
female enrolment as well as schools in urban poor settlements.
Thika West Sub-County was allocated 16 slots in total with
94 Schools in Kiambu County benefitting from the 1st phase of the
piloting project.
In this regard, the management of all primary schools in
Kenya will henceforth be ran by a Board of Management (B.O.M), as opposed to the
Parents Teachers Association (P.T.A.). The B.O.M. will have the powerful role
of disciplining and interdicting teachers as well as managing the finances and
affairs of the school just as the Board of Governors in secondary Schools.
The B.O.M. in each school will constitute of a membership of
14 people, 6 of them nominated from the 8 members of the school PTA. The P.T.A.
chairman will be an automatic addition to the B.O.M making them 7 in total. The
other seven will appointed by the District Education Board to include special
interests and sponsors.
All board members must have attained a Form Four level of
education.
Among those present in the meeting included Thika West
Assistant Deputy County Commissioner Madam Jane Chabira Manene, Thika Branch
KNUT Secretary Mr. Joe Mungai Ngige, officials from the Education Office, all
Thika chiefs and their assistants, a representative each of Thika Town MP Alice Ng'ang'a and Hospital Ward MCA Mwangi Wamwangi, head-teachers and parents of all Thika
Township primary schools.
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