Its implications at a national and school level

The last 12 months have seen a political storm in Kenya around the misallocation of public funds from the national flagship Free Primary Education Programme.  In recent weeks the Minister for Education has been suspended, senior civil servants have been placed on leave and major donors have withdrawn and delayed funding.

Bryan Patten provided an update on Suas’ work with Community and Government Schools in Kenya and reflected on how the national level crisis has had an impact on both public and private schools. He also reflected on the approaches which DFID and USAID are taking to address the issues of corruption within the national level programme.

Bryan Patten is a founding member of Suas Educational Development and has led its Overseas Programmes of the last five years.   Bryan is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, where he worked in the Centre for Research in IT in Education.  He also initiated Suas and Trinity’s “Bridge to College” programme, which was recently awarded the Jennifer Burke award for Innovation in Teaching and Learning.

An active member of the Irish Network for Development and International Education, his publications and proceedings include “Quantative and Qualitative lessons learnt from interventions on access and quality with public and private schools in Haiti” (Walsh & Patten, 2009) and “The use of Online Learning Environments within Development Education” (Savage, Campbell & Patten, 2007)

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