Education
Source: The Star
WOMEN representatives have urged the Government to provide free nursery school education. The women will table a motion in Parliament for a law that will make free pre-primary education mandatory.
Laikipia women representative Jane Apollos accused former and current governments of discriminating the children.
She said that all school going children should be treated equally and be provided with free education.
Apollos regretted that the burden of paying fees for the kids, food and books is left to the already overburdened parents. "How can we spend billions of shillings in buying laptops for children who do not have basic nursery education?" she asked.
"Sociologists say the first five years of a child's life are crucial to educational success and that is why the government should put support these children. We have to bring up a learned society from the beginning of the curriculum," she said.