Failure by a substantial number of qualified students to apply for vacancies in local universities this year has raised considerable concern among education stakeholders.
Presiding over Ibacho high school Education Day in Masaba South sub-county, Professor Henry Onderi, attributed the decline of 23,000 students to either ignorance or lack of interest.
Onderi who is also the chairman of the County Education Board, however, advised students to join university courses that will ensure a purpose for their future.
Nyaribari Masaba legislator, Dr. Daniel Manduku, who was appraised on the school’s needs, pledged to offer infrastructural, motivational, and bursary support.
According to the MP, the area Constituency Development Bursary Fund will give priority to deserving learners in secondary schools.
Nyakundi Gesora, the Board of Management of chairman explained underway plans by the school to fix some infrastructural constraints faced.
This included the building of two laboratories, a dormitory for girls, and a library with teachers’ houses following later.
The chairman commended the National Government CDF for funding a three-story dormitory under construction and two classrooms meant for Junior secondary which did not take –off but were currently in use.
Philip Ochoi, the principal termed the occasion a turning point for the school since the Covid19 spike.
Elaborate strategies have been coined by parents and stakeholders to propel the school to attain a targeted mean score of over 7 this year, he added.
Parents were urged to provide educational, moral, and spiritual guidance to their children who were released for the August holiday.