PREMIUM Win for community schools as MPs review admission criteria Education 7 hours ago Listen

Lawmakers argued that the move is aimed at ensuring there is an infrastructure upgrade programme, especially for schools in categories C-3 and C-4, in order to decongest those in categories C1 and C2 In the new review, MPs want the capitation formula to be revised in order to reflect actual infrastructural capacity and ensure that schools receive proportional and equitable capitation to incentivise enrolment diversification and achieve equitable distribution of learners across the school categories Mr Gisairo said the few number of learners per stream in each school will give teachers an easy time to interact with the students and provide much guidance as needed.

In the current government capitation system, money follows the number of students-the more students a school has, the more money it receives from the government.

The lawmakers have unanimously passed a motion seeking to compel the Ministry of Education, in collaboration with other relevant government agencies and stakeholders, to cap the maximum number of streams each cluster of schools can admit each year.