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"speaker_name": "Hon. Ogamba",
"speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
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"content": " Thank you. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. First, I wish to state that the Ministry does not provide any bursaries for basic education. The Ministry only administers the Elimu Scholarship which supports selected students through secondary school. The scholarship has been running since 2020. During that period, 52,000 students have benefited under the programme. The breakdown of the funding per year is as follows. In the year 2020 there were 9,000 scholarships at a total sum of Kshs1,013,238,782. In the year 2021, there was 9,000 scholarships at a total amount of Kshs1,322,841,971. In 2022, there was a total of 9,000 scholarships at a total amount of Kshs2,967,055,422. In 2023, there was a total of 10,574 scholarships at a total amount of Kshs3,405,949,326. In 2024, we had 14,426 scholarships at a total amount of Kshs4,018,177,480. That makes a total of 52,000 scholarships at a total amount of Kshs12,727,262 981. Secondly, bursaries are provided through the framework of the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) and the county governments. The Ministry of Education is not involved in the processes at both levels and does not have the records of the allocations of awards that are made by the respective Members of Parliament and the county governors. The Ministry does not have any legal or administrative mechanism for monitoring the bursaries allocated by the NG-CDF and by the county governments. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the challenge relating to the management of bursaries and scholarships was identified by the Presidential Working Party on Education Reform. The Working Party noted that there are various sources of funding available, but that they are fragmented and uncoordinated, leading to some students benefiting from multiple awards while leaving many others outside or without. The Government is spending heavily on education at 27 per cent of the total budget expenditure. This is well beyond the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recommended rate of 15 to 20 per cent of the annual public expenditure. Yet we still experience lower outcomes which can be attributed to inefficiencies in the allocation of resources in the sector. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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