Obstacles To Effective Instructional Supervision In Public Primary Schools In Mbooni Division, Mbooni West District, Kenya

ABSTRACT Since early 1960‘s the Kenyan government showed her commitment to the provision of Universal Primary Education (Republic of Kenya, 1964). When NARC formed government in 2003, primary education was declared to be free and compulsory (MOEST, 2003). The main problem for this study was that, despite the critical role played by the Ministry of Education, in ensuring supervision in primary schools, its effectiveness has not been realized since schools continue to experience: - Teacher shortage, increased pupils enrolment, lack of clear guidelines on admission where overage pupils learned w…