SEQIP Project Hits Milestones as Additional Learners Join Secondary School

More learners have transitioned from primary to secondary school in the last six years, a report by the Ministry of Education has said.

According to a report titled ‘Key Highlights on the Status of the Kenya Secondary Education Quality Improvement Project’ (SEQIP), there was marked increase in the number of Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination candidates in regions benefiting from the programme.

In 2023, 375,296 learners wrote the examination compared to 263,151 in 2017, an increase of 112,145.

Of this number, 190,599 were female and 184,697 male compared to 126,468 female and 136,683 male who sat the examination in 2017 under the programme.

The programme was launched on September 15, 2017 and ended in December 2024.
According to the report by presented by National Project Coordinator Jane Mbugua in December last year, there was also improvement of performance in biology, physics and chemistry.

At the start of the project in 2017, the overall score for both male and female learners in the science subjects at Form 2 was 24.10, while for girls was 23.70.

But at the end of the project in 2023, the overall score grew to 26.1 and the one for girls to 25.1.
However, there was a decline in performance in athematics, with the baseline overall test score at Form 2 reducing from 23.40 to 21.7 at the end of the intervention.

The score for girls was recorded at 22.0 at baseline, but reduced to 20.7 at the end of the project.
The SEQIP programme was established by the World Bank in partnership with the Ministry of Education to improve retention of learners in upper primary and increase transition from primary to secondary education.

It also sought to enhance equitable access to quality teaching and learning for improved learning outcomes in basic education institutions.

The project benefited approximately 600,000 students in grades 7 and 8; 600,000 Form 1-4 students; and about 17,000 primary and 8,500 secondary science, mathematics, and English teachers in the targeted public schools.

The beneficiaries were from 7,852 public primary schools and 2,147 public secondary schools in 110 sub-counties in 30 counties that are socio-economically disenfranchised.

The project was anchored on four components, namely: improving quality of teaching in the targeted areas; improving retention in the upper primary and transition from primary to secondary school in the targeted areas; systems reforms support; and project management, coordination, monitoring and evaluation.

The project was implemented jointly by TSC, KICD, KNEC, and CEMASTEA to a tune of Sh20 billion.

SEQIP Project Hits Milestones as Additional Learners Join Secondary School

More learners have transitioned from primary to secondary school in the last six years, a report by the Ministry of Education has said.

According to a report titled ‘Key Highlights on the Status of the Kenya Secondary Education Quality Improvement Project’ (SEQIP), there was marked increase in the number of Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination candidates in regions benefiting from the programme.

In 2023, 375,296 learners wrote the examination compared to 263,151 in 2017, an increase of 112,145.

Of this number, 190,599 were female and 184,697 male compared to 126,468 female and 136,683 male who sat the examination in 2017 under the programme.

The programme was launched on September 15, 2017 and ended in December 2024.
According to the report by presented by National Project Coordinator Jane Mbugua in December last year, there was also improvement of performance in biology, physics and chemistry.

At the start of the project in 2017, the overall score for both male and female learners in the science subjects at Form 2 was 24.10, while for girls was 23.70.

But at the end of the project in 2023, the overall score grew to 26.1 and the one for girls to 25.1.
However, there was a decline in performance in athematics, with the baseline overall test score at Form 2 reducing from 23.40 to 21.7 at the end of the intervention.

The score for girls was recorded at 22.0 at baseline, but reduced to 20.7 at the end of the project.
The SEQIP programme was established by the World Bank in partnership with the Ministry of Education to improve retention of learners in upper primary and increase transition from primary to secondary education.

It also sought to enhance equitable access to quality teaching and learning for improved learning outcomes in basic education institutions.

The project benefited approximately 600,000 students in grades 7 and 8; 600,000 Form 1-4 students; and about 17,000 primary and 8,500 secondary science, mathematics, and English teachers in the targeted public schools.

The beneficiaries were from 7,852 public primary schools and 2,147 public secondary schools in 110 sub-counties in 30 counties that are socio-economically disenfranchised.

The project was anchored on four components, namely: improving quality of teaching in the targeted areas; improving retention in the upper primary and transition from primary to secondary school in the targeted areas; systems reforms support; and project management, coordination, monitoring and evaluation.

The project was implemented jointly by TSC, KICD, KNEC, and CEMASTEA to a tune of Sh20 billion.