Abstract
Globally, there exist bursary schemes that are in place to enhance access and equity in the provision of education to the disadvantaged. In Kenya, there have been bursary schemes that enhances access and equity in the provision of secondary school education.With Siaya County’s 16% of the population having secondary school education, below the neighbouring Kisumu county’s 25%, Vihiga county’s 20% and Kakamega county’s 19%, coupled with inequity in bursary distribution, the County Government of Siaya came up with Siaya County Educational Bursary Fund (SCEBF) to help improve access and equity in the acquisition of secondary school education. The purpose of the study was to examine the extent to which the bursary scheme was equitably distributed in Siaya county. Objectives of the study was establish extent to which county education bursary fund allocation to the recipient influences access to secondary education in Siaya County. Descriptive survey and correlational research designs were used in the study. A third of the principals’ population which is 68 secondary school principals and 425 students sampled using Yamane’s formular formed the study sample. The study results indicates that SCEBF allocation had a unique significant contribution to access to secondary education (s=.564, p=.000). the findings further show that enrollment changed at about 31.8% due to funding allocation in the county. The study recommended that there is need to increase allocation of bursary fund to enhance access to secondary education in the county.
Highlights
AND BACKGROUND In America there was No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) in 2001 passed by the congress
The percentage increase was highest between 2016 and 2017, with an increase of 9.4%, this could be attributed to the Siaya County Educational Bursary Fund (SCEBF) that supported the needy students to secondary school
This shows that many girls drop out of schools compared to boys.The finding concurs with a study by Mochari (2005) on bursary contribution on girl child in Nyamira District who noted that award and distribution to certain extent benefited few and was gender bias
Summary
AND BACKGROUND In America there was No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) in 2001 passed by the congress. The essence of NCLB was to widen access especially for those who have been ostracized by virtue of their socio- economic status or race.NCLB failed to provide real access to minority students’ reason being poor funding.Participation of secondary education with a cost equivalent of US $ 200-300 represents a heavy financial burden even for middle income families. In many countries fees and private cost often make it impossible in the absence of affectively targeted financial support for the few poor children that complete primary education to enroll in secondary school further skewing participation towards wealthy households (Lewin, 2002)
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