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Education in Kenya refers to the education system in Kenya. It is considered a basic right that should be offered to every individual. Education in Kenya predates to as early as the 18th century among the Swahili people. The earliest school was established by missionaries in Rabai.
The history of higher education in Kenya is defined by a struggle for domination by the various forces that have sought to influence the country’s social, economic, and political trajectory in the colonial and postcolonial periods.
After educational officials visited a mission school up-country the Provincial Commissioner, Nyeri, was informed that education was so primitive that it was a matter of getting the young men to read and write and to grasp the simplest elements of arithmetic.
In 1967, Kenya formed the East African Community with Uganda and Tanzania. The three countries adopted a the same system of education, the 7-4-2-3, which consisted of 7 years of primary education, four years of secondary education, two years of high school and 3 to 5 years of university education.
10 kwi 2018 · Before Independence, the Christian missionaries introduced Western education in Kenya. In the 19th century, the first mission school was introduced in Kenya at Rabai near the place of Mombasa. The history of education system in Kenya before and after the Independence is very interesting.
6 kwi 2023 · Reviews the evolution of the Kenyan education system since independence from Britain in 1963.
1 sty 2020 · The first Education Commission (the Ominde Commission) under the new government developed the education goals of the country and formulated a new education policy framework, which linked education to economic development and the national aspirations of the new nation (Republic of Kenya 1964).
