The Ministry of Education is responsible for lifelong education and training and coordinates provision between government, donors, NGOs and the communities. The Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology is responsible for higher and technical education, and research for Kenya’s sustainable national development. The Directorate of Technical Accreditation and Quality Assurance develops, maintains and coordinates training standards in technical, industrial, vocational and business training institutions.
Public spending on education was 6.7% of GDP in 2010.
The government is committed to providing high quality education to all of Kenya’s citizens and works in close partnership with NGOs in delivering education and training facilities for special-needs children.
Kenya qualified for the World Bank’s ‘Fast Track Initiative’ – known since September 2011 as the Global Partnership for Education – which is aimed at meeting the education Millennium Development Goals and the Education for All goal that all children complete a full cycle of primary education by 2015. Since 2002, under the initiative developing countries have committed to design and implement sound education plans and development partners commit to align and harmonise additional support around these plans.
The National ICT Strategy for Education and Training comprises e-government, management information systems and e-learning. It aims to arm education managers and planners with timely data and to ensure that teachers and students have ICTs appropriate to the learning process.
The ministry, with the support of the Kenya ICT Trust Fund, has set up national and regional ICT support centres, mostly in the polytechnics and universities, to provide telephone or online technical support to schools.
