Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has asked the Ministry of Education and Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to establish a technical team to lead implementation of recommendations of the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms.

Speaking during a meeting with the leadership of the Ministry of Education and TSC at his Official Residence in Karen, Nairobi, the Deputy President said that parallel reforms by the two agencies is counterproductive.

The DP said the technical team will lead in the establishment of a common strategy of considering the respective mandates and needs of the ministry and TSC and other stakeholders.

“President William Ruto appointed the Presidential Working Party on Education Reform, which submitted its report and he accepted the recommendations. We have to work together in implementation. The MoE and TSC are working separately.

“This won’t help. A parallel approach does not augur well with the intended purpose of the reforms,” the DP said.

“This sector is important to our country. That is why we committed almost 30 per cent of our budget to the Education sector. We can’t afford to get it wrong. There is success in people working together, and putting aside divergent opinions’,” he said.

Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu said the ministry is ready to work with TSC in realising reforms that respond to the development needs of the country.

“We are one sector (Education). Delivering the reforms required coordination. A technical team will be important,” Machogu said.

The CS added that such collaboration will hasten processing of requisite procedures, Cabinet memos and other documents like sessional papers that require concurrence.