By Rodgers Wagura
Worth Noting:
- “Tetu was an education giant, but in past years there have been drastic declining performances in exams with Tetu being number seven out of the eight Sub-Counties in Nyeri County also the population of schools is worrying as some schools have half the population they can handle”, Wandeto lamented.
- Wandeto said that they will incorporate all education stakeholders from the area to ensure the constituency is back to where it was as the Nyeri education giant.
- He disclosed that they started the journey six years ago before he was even elected the area MP with schools motivation program adding that now being the area MP, he would expand this and make it even better.
Tetu Constituency Member of Parliament Geoffrey Wandeto yesterday held a two day Education Managers and stakeholders conference in both primary schools and junior secondary schools at Kagumo Teachers Training College.
The conference consisted of Headteachers, Parents and Teachers Association (P.T.A), Schools Board and Allumni representatives to discuss Education outcome in Tetu Schools due to declining performances in past years.
Some of the issues raised during the conference were improvement of access, retention and transition of learners in schools, introduction of successful food program especially in Primary Schools ensuring pupils get decent meals.
The MP said that they are working with stakeholders to ensure that the school feeding program is successful and they are borrowing the best practices from Dagoreti South Constituency led by area the M P John Kiarie who runs the same program successful and was present during the conference.
“Tetu was an education giant, but in past years there have been drastic declining performances in exams with Tetu being number seven out of the eight Sub-Counties in Nyeri County also the population of schools is worrying as some schools have half the population they can handle”, Wandeto lamented.
Wandeto said that they will incorporate all education stakeholders from the area to ensure the constituency is back to where it was as the Nyeri education giant.
He disclosed that they started the journey six years ago before he was even elected the area MP with schools motivation program adding that now being the area MP, he would expand this and make it even better.
He pointed out that he has ambitious programs like school feeding programs, improving infrastructures in schools, motivating teachers and learners, comprehensive prizegiving for top performing students and teachers to improve education in general in his constituency.
The Daggoreti South Constituency M P shared his experience on how they have been handling educational matters in his area.
Key issues he shared included rapid reconstruction of classes, moving them from their state of unfit for human occupation to the current state they are in, which are comparable to private academies, thus appealing to leaners and making them comfortable.
He also pointed out that during the last parliamentary term, they managed to construct five state of the art secondary schools using the National Government Constituency Development Funds (NG-CDF).
He added that his constituency is the only one in the country that has a comprehensive public school feeding program.
“The school feeding program was started in 2020 and as of today we are delivering over 17,000 lunches to learners in my constituency ” he added.
He said the food is prepared at a central point at Mukarara Primary school and distributed to all public primary schools in the constituency.
On his part, the Tetu MP said his team will work on implementing some of the proposals offered by his colleagues, adding that his aim was to ensure that learners received the best in education.
Stakeholders thanked their MP for convening the forum which they described as an eye opener and which they said they were optimistic that it would enable them make a turn round as far as education in the constituency was concerned.
Additional Reporting by William Muchiri
