Kenya

CRC Concluding observations
CRC/C/KEN/CO/3-5
paras. 56–57
2 February 2016

56. The Committee welcomes the increase in enrolment and completion rates at primary and secondary education. However, the Committee is concerned about:

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(d) Low quality of education and rapid increase of private and informal schools, including those funded by foreign development aids, providing sub-standard education and deepening inequalities.

57. With reference to the Committee’s general comment No. 1 (2001) on the aims of education, the Committee:

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(b) Guarantee the legal right to free mandatory education for all, without direct or hidden costs, including non-Kenyan citizens such as in particular refugee children. In doing so, prioritize free primary quality education at public schools over private schools and informal low cost schools and regulate and monitor the quality of education provided by private informal schools in line with the Convention;