Over two million primary learners missing from ministry’s KEMIS records
The Education Ministry's KEMIS database has captured only 5.05 million primary learners against an expected 7.2 million. Officials warned school heads that learners left out of the system will not attract capitation funding.
Education officials are trying to find out why more than two million primary school learners are missing from government records. The gap casts doubt on the enrolment data used to plan and fund schools, the Daily Nation reported. The Kenya Education Management Information System (KEMIS) has registered about 5.05 million primary learners in public and private schools. The ministry expected 7.2 million. Fredrick Mujumba, the Director of Education in charge of KEMIS, gave the figures at the Kenya Comprehensive School Heads Association (KCSHA) annual conference in Mombasa, The Eastleigh Voice reported. His numbers showed 2,615,822 boys and 2,442,600 girls in primary schools. The gap is smaller at other levels. Senior schools have 3,259,906 registered learners against an expected 3.5 million. Junior schools have about 3.18 million. Mujumba said this makes primary schools the ministry's main concern. He added that some institutions had joined the system but recorded no learners at all. "We didn't expect that, but it's something that we are working on to establish," he said. Nelson Sifuna, Head of the Directorate of Field Coordination and Co-curricular Activities, gave the more…
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