Education Cabinet Secretary, George Magoha, has hit out at private schools following a fresh row over the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) funding. Magoha said the Ministry will not offer any financial lifeline to the private learning institutions. The Kenya Private Schools Association (KPSA) national chairman, Charles Ochome, had on Saturday, January 15, appealed to the government to finance private schools in order to put in place necessary infrastructure for the upcoming Junior Secondary School transition. The CS, however, maintained that parents had a choice on where to take their students and that those who chose private institutions should be ready to foot the bills.

Magoha advised private schools that desired to join in the CBC transition to fix the CBC classrooms within their primary school wings or foot the bill to build new classes. He advised parents who termed the directive exorbitant to transfer their students to public schools where tuition was free. Ochome, in his appeal, had claimed that private schools were struggling with resources and setting up the infrastructure such as classrooms and buying academic materials for the upcoming double intake was a major challenge. He argued that it was unfair for the government to pump billions into public schools without offering any financial help to private institutions.