‘You Can’t Pass The Burden To Parents!’ – MP Demands Gov’t Scrap New Funding Model
Bumula MP Jack Wamboka has urged the government to reexamine the recently introduced school finance model, which the court found unlawful and unfair.
Wamboka claimed that the approach was expensive and exclusively favored students from affluent families when compared to the prior system.
“Poor parents cannot be able to support their children through the new education system because it is too costly,” he said.
The MP looked to be reading from the same script as Justice Chacha Mwita, who ruled on Friday, December 20, that the new university education funding scheme violated students’ reasonable expectations.
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Mwita maintained that the model was implemented without proper public input, despite its substantial impact on higher education.
“The government has a constitutional responsibility to fund public universities. Passing this burden onto parents is a violation of the Constitution,” Justice Mwita said.
“The changes in the funding model did not adhere to the necessary legal provisions in its creation,” he observed.
Wamboka admitted that the new system was good for the country, but its execution techniques were frustrating and likely to fail.
“The government should not hurry to implement the CBC. Let them listen to the cries and views of parents and other stakeholders,” he added.
Speaking during a graduation party in Ndalu, Tongaren Constituency, Wamboka indicated that the government should bear the expenditures of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) to relieve parents of the financial strain.
“The government should cater for all the costs for the CBC to enable equality education among learners,” he said.
“Parents, teachers and even the Education ministry does not understand CBC and they expect learners to adopt it. It is bound to fail unless the government reviews its implementation model,” added the MP.
The chairperson of the National Assembly’s Committee on Public Investments and Governance added that the government should hire more instructors to oversee academic programs in schools.
He noted that schools across the country were experiencing a severe teacher shortage and that the implementation of the new system had exacerbated the problem.
“The government should give priority to the employment of teachers to fast-track implementation of CBC,” he added.
The MP also expressed concern about public universities’ financial difficulties.
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He claimed that corruption had contributed to the issues the institutions were facing.
“Management of public Universities have been appearing before my Committee to answer accountability questions and we have unearthed a lot of rot in the institutions,” he added.
Wamboka stated that the committee he chairs is committed to ensuring the responsible use of public resources in the universities.
He warned the corrupt managers that if they continued, the rule of law would apply.
‘You Can’t Pass The Burden To Parents!’ – MP Demands Gov’t Scrap New Funding Model
