RETHINKING FINANCING OF TEACHER EDUCATION TO ADDRESS THE ONGOING AND UPCOMING REFORMS IN EDUCATION SECTOR IN KENYA
RETHINKING FINANCING OF TEACHER EDUCATION TO ADDRESS THE ONGOING AND UPCOMING REFORMS IN EDUCATION SECTOR IN KENYA
Dr. Wamichwe Joel Mwangi
Presbyterian University of East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
ABSTRACT
The demand for education coupled with the reforms in education sector, has necessitated production of man-power requisite in the Education sector. The teacher is the Human Resource required in implementing reforms in the education sector. The production of aforementioned re-source can only be realized from the Teacher Education, through re-thinking of financing of Teacher Education. Financing of Teacher Edu-cation in Kenya is performed by the Government and private sector through various methods and sources. The sources of Financing include the Government, Private sector, De-velopment partners, Households and Individuals, Communities and Ha-rambees, Religious Organization among others. The Reforms that necessitate rethinking of Financing of Teacher Educa-tion include, change of Education system, the Competence Based Cur-riculum, Technological reforms in education, Global education reforms (EFA and MDG’s Goal), among others. It is expected that, rethinking of financing the teacher education and the successful implementation of the said reforms will enable the state to, enhance the quality of teacher education, which will spearhead the pro-duction of skilled and knowledgeable Man-power, thus solving the la-bour market demands, This will subsequently ignite and stimulate the national economic growth and development, and eventually place the nation among the leading economies in the world.
