Primary Education

 SITUATION ANALYSIS FOR PRIMARY EDUCATION DEPARTMENT 

1.  Overview

Primary education Sector is one among the 13 Department of Kisarawe District Council. It is divided into three subsections as follows.

Education Administration

Primary School Education

Adult Education.

Below is the Departmental Structure:

2.0 Current situation of the Department

• Education Administration

The education Department is implementing Free Education Policy from Pre- primary School through Primary School Development Programme (PEDP)

Education Administration Staffs by Qualification and Requirements

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Administration Arrangement

The relationship between the various key section actors especially at district (Council actors) and District commissioners’ office is excellent.

Institutional Arrangement

School Committees: These are key aspects in the implementation of PEDP and in general development of Basic education at school level. Their main responsibility is to plan, implement and supervise their development plans and fully participate in the overall management of schools.

Ward Level

At ward level, the community leaders and official (WEOs and WECs) have the responsibility of ensuring that communities in their respective wards participate fully in the development of education including registration of school age children. The WECs are the representatives of MOEVT for all matters concerning education at the ward level. They play an essential role in coordination and supervision of PEDP activities.

District/ Council Level

General overseeing of the programme implementation lies on the hands of the district council. The Education department is responsible for day to day running of the programme. Implementation reports and issues are presented to and discussed by various council committees. The District has established “Task Forces” from District to village level.

Regional Level

The Regional plays a supportive role in the PEDP implementation since it provides policy enforcement and other technical backing to the district Council. Also supervising and evaluating National Examinations of STD IV and STD VII.

MOEVT

The Ministry of Education and Vocational Training assisting council by providing circulars, Education policies guideline and also involved in providing training and funds to facilitate implementation of PEDP.

PO-RALG

PO-RALG is overall responsible in the programme implementation including funding. It is also responsible in Coordinating, Monitoring and evaluation of programme in collaboration with MOEVT and Regional Secretariat (RS). It has also been involved in coordinating the provision of funds for implementing the programme.

(ii)Primary Education 

Enrolment Expansion

The previous total number of Primary Schools is 87 among them, 83 are owned by the government and 4 are owned by private sector. In these primary schools there are 83 pre –primary classes with 3987 children (2080 boys and 1907 girls). Enrolment in Government primary schools for the year 2016/2017 is 24863 pupils whereby 12 631 are boys and 12232 are girls. The total number of all Pre and Primary school children is 28850 where by 14711 are Boys and 14139 are girls.

However, Every Primary School provides Adult education through non-formal education system in 12 centers. COBET having 225 (Male172 and Female 53)

Enrolment and Access

Enrolment and Access to primary education has been given priority by the council. The trends of Registration of Children into standard one in the District from 2011/12- 2016/17 indicated in the following table.

Table 2: Enrolment Trend 2011/012 - 2017

Table 3: School infrastructure and Furniture

Core Function of the Department

Quality Improvement

One of the strategic priorities of PEDP is quality improvement and revitalization. This comprise of:-

Improving teachers effectiveness

Ensuring adequate availability of good quality learning and teaching materials and environment.

Maintaining educational standards by providing necessary support to teachers.

Human Resources:-

One of the key factors in teacher’s effectiveness is their qualification. The required of Teachers in the district is 935 teachers where by 807 teachers are available the deficit is 128 teachers in the district.

Teacher Recruitment and Deployment 

During the period of financial year 2016/2017 there is no recruitment and deployment.

Table 3: Position of teachers by council, 2016/17

Academic Achievement (PSLE and STD IV) for past five years 2011012-2016/17

The PSLE pass rate in the current year 2017 is 67% the increase is 6% compared with 61.7 at the year 2016 .which made the council placed at number 5 in Regional rank. For STD IV pass rate is 63% of the year 2015/16.

• Adult Education

Table 4: Identified children for COBET, by Age and peer group

3.0 Stakeholder’s analysis

Primary Education Department collaborates with several stakeholders in various programmes running from communities, financial institutions, NGOS, CBO’s Private Companies,

Names of key stake holders Education department works in collaboration with the following potential stakeholders, community, and non-governmental organization including TACAIDS, PLAN INTERNATIONAL ADD International, TWAWEZA,  IGN, FEED THE CHILDREN and other council collaborated. The following table outlines type, needs and expectations of various stakeholders in Kisarawe Primary Education department.

Needs/expectations of stakeholders

SWOC Analysis  

Challenges

The department faces some challenges which from performing its duties to its full potential. These challenges are:

• STD IV and STD VII target was not achieve the Pass rate of exams aimed to increase from 75% to 80% for the year 2016/2017.
• Insufficient working facilities such as vehicles to reach areas which located far from headquarters.
• Unfriendly Working condition environment for teachers due to the inadequate of teachers houses.

Question 2 Conduct performance review for previous district strategic plan 2011/2012-2016/2017

Answer:  Review of previous Education strategic plan.

Table: Primary Education performance review 

(i) Education Administration 

Question 3: Review the existing/formulate targets under each objective.

Table: Educational Strategic Planning Matrix for Kisarawe district council

Strategic Planning Matrix