Impact Of Tuition Waiver On Wastage In Public Day Secondary Schools In Kirinyaga County

ABSTRACT There are very many challenges facing secondary school education delivery in Kenya in recent times, leading to high dropout and repetition rates. This made the Government of Kenya (GOK) to introduce provision of tuition fee waiver in public secondary schools in 2008. The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of tuition fee waiver on wastage in public day secondary schools. This was done by assessing the repetition and dropout rates. Specifically this study sought to; determine the dropout rates in public day secondary schools in Kirinyaga Central District, determine, f…