MoE to determine learners dress code. The presidential working group on education reforms (PWGER) has come out to propose new changes in the education governance system. It has therefore proposed that the role of developing an explicit framework for regulating dress code should be under MoE. This body should implement laws that cuts across all educational levels, according to PWGER’s submissions.
The PWGER under their chairperson professor Munavu drafted a report that they presented to president William Ruto for approval. According to the content of the report handed in, school uniforms have been perceived as an expensive burden to parents. This results from collusion between suppliers and school administrations where each side becomes an interested party.
Consequently, uniform purchase has become a forceful affair whereby schools demand parents to acquire them from specific endorsed suppliers. Guardians therefore no longer have the liberty and freedom of purchasing such attire from other cheaper sources.
MoE to determine learners dress code
At the beginning of the year, trade and industry CS Moses Kuria condemned the act of schools holding uniform sales. He (Kuria) was concerned with reports of schools working with uniform retailers and tailors thereby making money off of parents.
The CS had then insisted that instructors should give the CBC and intellectual pursuits the first priority.
According to the ministry of education under education CS Ezekiel Machogu, schools have no business selling uniforms. Kuria therefore slammed the act saying that educators should concentrate on academics alongside other goals established by the ministry.
Previously, parents had raised concerns that schools had turned uniform industry into a lucrative business benefiting themselves. The school endorsed suppliers and retailers has higher prices than other retailers with similar items.
In March, Githunguri MP Gathoni Wamuchomba responded to these worries proposing that all educational institutions should make uniforms accessible for all learners. The idea of schools demanding that parents should pay uniform money to some specific accounts was therefore prohibited. This is because some parents claimed that the amount asked for was too much for them to afford.
Wamuchomba further advised all institutions, public and private sector, to make uniforms be in the reach of the students. “The regular people should henceforth not be subjected to straining on such budgets”, the law maker added.
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MoE to determine learners dress code.