STAKEHOLDERS ATTITUDES AND EMERGING ISSUES TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION OF TUITION FREE SECONDARY SCHOOL EDUCATION
Wamichwe Joel Mwangi - PhD Student, University of Nairobi, Kenya
ABSTRACT
The introduction of the free secondary education has not been successful as intended. This is attributed to various factors, namely stakeholder views and attitudes toward successful implementation this study is an attempt to determine whether the aforementioned factors do pose any challenge to the implementation of free secondary school education. The objective of the study was to examine views, attitude and emerging issues, on the implementation of free tuition secondary school education. The study employed descriptive research as research design based on primary data gathered from Head teachers, teachers, principals of secondary schools and education officers. The target population was 130 teachers, 12 principals and 4 education officers from 12 secondary schools from the County (district). The study was based on literature review which confirmed that certain factors were closely correlated to challenges affecting successful implementation of tuition free secondary school education. Data collection was based on a sample size of 50 teachers, 2 principal 1 education officer selected randomly from the 12 schools. The pre-testing involved 2 principal, 13 teachers and one educational officer from Ol-Joro-Orok division. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data, where statistical package for social science (SPSS) was used to calculate frequency and percentages. The result from the study indicated that, stakeholders views, attitude and emerging issues to an extent, affects the implementation of free secondary school. The study recommended that the Government should consider the views of the stakeholders and foresee emerging issues as it implement free secondary school program.