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Free Primary Education has been allocated Sh9.1 billion while Sh61.9 billion for Free Day Secondary Education.
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Junior Secondary Schools have been allocated Sh30.7 billion for capitation.
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The Ministry of Education has received a Sh28 billion increase in budgetary allocations in the Financial Year 2024/25.
Treasury Cabinet Secretary Njuguna Ndung'u while reading the 2024/25 proposed budget allocations, noted that the education sector has been allocated Sh656.6 billion.
The CS said the Sh656.6 billion represents 27.6 per cent of the total budget expenditure.
In 2023/2024 financial year, the education sector was allocated Sh628.6 billion which represented 27.4 per cent of the total national budget.
Ndung'u proposed an allocation of Sh358.2 billion to Teachers Service Commission.
Sh13.4 billion has been proposed for conversion of 46,000 Junior Secondary School intern teachers to permanent and pensionable terms.
Ndung'u proposed Sh1.3 billion to used in training teachers in the Competency-Based Curriculum.
The CS proposed that Basic Education gets a total allocation of Sh142.3 billion.
Free Primary Education has been allocated Sh9.1 billion while Sh61.9 billion for Free Day Secondary Education.
Junior Secondary Schools have been allocated Sh30.7 billion for capitation.
To conduct examinations, Ndung'u proposed that the Kenya National Examination Council be allocated Sh5 billion as exam waiver fee.
Additionally, the CS in his budget proposal allocated Sh3.2 billion for infrastructure development in both primary and secondary schools.
He proposed Sh128 billion for higher education and research.
TVET institutions in his proposal will be allocated Sh30.7 billion.
Ndung'u proposed to allocate Sh1 billion for the construction of JSS classrooms.
The CS wants Sh2.3 billion to go to construction and training material for TVETs.
For the Higher Education Loans Board (Helb) the CS gave an allocation of Sh35.9 billion for university and TVET students.
For scholarships meant for university students, Ndung'u allocated Sh16.9 billion while capitation and scholarships for TVETs was allocated Sh7.7 billion.
Further, the CS proposed an allocation of Sh1.1 billion for Research, Science and Technology Innovation and Sh1.8 billion for the construction of integrated resource centres for learning.
For the Digital Literacy Program and ICT integration in Secondary Schools, Treasury proposed an allocation of Sh360 million.
The Kenya Primary Education Equity in Learning programme has been allocated Sh11.1 billion while the Kenya Secondary Schools Quality Improvement project got Sh1.5 billion.
It is noteworthy that the CS did not mention the school feeding program when he read the budget allocations for the Ministry of Education.