The government has distributed 9.9 million textbooks to all public primary schools across the country, Education PS Belio Kipsang has announced. This comes amidst reports that the books were insufficient and some schools had missed out.
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But, now Dr. Kipsang has confirmed that schools which had not received the books have now received the learning materials.
“Any school that has not received books is not because they were not available”. Said Kipsang.
“It is because, maybe on the day the books were being taken, the school was closed and there was nobody to receive them. But the books have been printed,” he confirmed.
The PS said this while touring public primary schools on Monday.
The PS assured that the government is committed to ensuring that all learners have adequate teaching and learning materials.
“We have distributed books to all learning areas on a ratio of 1:1. One book to one learning pupil in the nine learning areas,” he reported.
The distribution exercise of textbooks to schools has been an annual event since the inception of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC).
The Ministry of Education launched the distribution of Grade 9 textbooks in October 2024 to facilitate adequate teaching and learning in the competency-based curriculum (CBC).
Education CS Julius Ogamba stated that the Ministry procured a total of 1,000,000 copies of learner´s books and 24,000 copies of teacher´s guides for each learning area in Grade 9.
