He pointed out that his administration has increased the free day secondary education expenditure by 33 per cent to Sh32 billion as it prepares to make universal secondary education free to ensure 100 per cent transition from primary to secondary school. Secondary education will be completely free in three years, President Uhuru Kenyatta has said. Uhuru said on Wednesday that this will make the transition from primary to secondary school possible for all KCPE candidates. “We are doing all this to improve the quality of education and ease the burden on parents by removing impediments of access to secondary education,” the President said. “The Free Day Secondary Education programme has paid handsome dividends - transition rates from primary to secondary schools have improved substantially from 60 per cent in 2008 to 86.7 per cent in 2015,” President Uhuru said.

Source: The Star June 22, 2016 14:37 UTC