Government and Policy

Education Sector Gets Lion’s Share Of The 2023/2024 Budget

BY Getrude Mathayo · June 16, 2023 12:06 pm

KEY POINTS

1 billion shillings has been proposed for the promotion of teachers while the school feeding program has been allocated 4.9 billion shillings in addition 940 million shillings will go towards the provision of sanitary towels.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) received 316.7 billion shillings for the promotion, hiring, and training of teachers.

With an allocation of 628.6 billion shillings, the Ministry of Education has received the lion’s share of the 2023/2024 budget, about 27.4 percent of the government’s total budget estimates.

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) received 316.7 billion shillings for the promotion, hiring, and training of teachers.

Free primary education has been allocated 12.5 billion shillings, and 65.4 billion shillings will go to free day secondary education which is inclusive of insurance and NHIF cover.

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The treasury has allocated 25.5 billion shillings to Junior Secondary Schools while 5 billion shillings will cater for national exams waiver while the Teachers Service Commission has allocated 4.8 billion shillings for the recruitment of 20,000 inter-teachers.

“I propose to the National Assembly to effect the budget allocation of Sh1.3 billion for the training of teachers on Competency-Based Curriculum and 400 million shillings for a digital literacy program and ICT integration in our secondary schools,” the CS for National Treasury said.

The 6 billion shillings has been allocated to primary and secondary school infrastructure development which will also cater for the construction of classrooms for Junior secondary schools.

An allocation of 1.9 billion shillings was proposed to go for the construction and equipment of technical training institutions and vocational training centers. Sh1.8 billion will be allocated to improve access and improve training in vocational training institutions.

University education has received 97.5 billion shillings,30.4 billion shillings for Higher Education Loans Board, 2.7 billion shillings for secondary education quality improvement projects, and 5.2 billion shillings as capitation for TVET students.

2.8 billion shillings has been allocated to support school infrastructure development in public primary and secondary schools while the digital literacy programme received 310 million shillings

In Uhuru’s last budget, the education sector received 544.4 billion shillings out of a budget of 3.31 trillion shillings, translating to only 16.44 percent which indicates this sector is one of the biggest beneficiaries of this year’s budget.

Additionally, TSC was allocated 294.7 billion shillings, half of which went into teacher remuneration. 6.8 billion shillings was allocated to the Kenya Secondary School Education Quality Improvement project while 971 million shillings went into the promotion of youth employment.