Education In Kenya Essay

This paper examines three published articles that report on statistics from research and personal experience in Kenya on behalf of the authors. The articles focus on different concerns about education in Kenya and solutions for the problem. Mulongo (2013) focuses on the inequality in Kenya starting with access to education. Kremer, Brannen and Glennerster (2013) focus on the quality of education in Kenya, what their results from evaluations show, and how the problem can be improved. Stern (2013) agrees that the quality of education in Kenya needs to change and his solution is technology and statistics education. This paper examines Kremer et al.’s (2013), Mulongo (2013), and Stern’s (2013) research that should be studied in order to understand …show more content…
Most reports include diagrams and report on the number of enrolled male and females, school improvements correlating to test scores, poverty levels per county, and the benefits of Kenyans attending a University and earning a degree. The quality of education in Kenya needs to improve, however, the inequality of access to education is a larger issue. Inequalities in Kenya exist in many areas starting with income and extending to health care. The southeastern parts of Kenya have a very low poverty rate and is called the urban area of Kenya. The people in the urban areas have degrees, secure jobs with benefits and their children have access to education, which they can afford to send them to. Mulongo (2013) mentions that the level of poverty in northern and northeastern Kenya reaches as high as 94.3%. The majority of families in these rural areas of Kenya lack education and therefore, they can only send their children to schools where the quality of education is poor. This large group of people need to have the same chance as the rich, so that their children can be given good education all the way to the university level and break out of this