The Ministry of Education seems to face shambles and budget cuts that could destroy the future of tens of thousands of young people whose only hope for a better life rests on a decent education.
The Free Day Secondary School grant, which on paper should be Sh22,244, has been cynically revised down to Sh15,614.
This might be the result of a cash crunch and the bureaucrats chopping without warning or explanation.
At university, labour unrest, from the strident bull-headed unionists, seems to be boiling over with lecturers warning that a strike looms unless they see cash in their bank accounts.
The funding crisis at both college and secondary school levels must trigger a rethink of the education system and the funding model.
Lurching from crisis to crisis cannot be the foundation on which a sustainable world-class education system can be built.
At this rate, students will likely lose hope in the promises of what education can do and opt for desperate options that could only escalate social upheaval and crime.
Principal Secretary Paul Bitok only yesterday told MPs 50,000 ghost students had been registered as part of corruption plans to beef up the numbers and collect free cash.
He must go further and name the schools and the money lost, and the cases taken up by the anti-corruption agency.
Quote of the day: “The future is purchased by the present.” —English scholar and lexicographer Samuel Johnson was born on September 18, 1709
