Investment in Professional Development for English Teachers in Kiswahili-Medium Schools

TLDR

• The national policy banner celebrating fee-free basic education, Elimu Bila Ada, is displayed on school walls, yet an increasing number of public primary schools have taken another route: English-medium instruction.
• READ MORE: Stakeholders Rattled As More Govt Primary Schools Transform Into English Mediums There is no single national policy or regulatory framework for public English-medium primary schools, so individual schools.
• Without a central government budget set aside for public English-medium schools, school fees and parental contributions become the only viable approach to resource mobilisation.
• For decades, parents who wanted English-medium instruction for their children were forced to attend expensive private schools.
• Public system divided This model may be effective for cost recovery at schools, but it poses a serious policy dilemma.