{"id":12078,"date":"2023-10-25T07:50:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T07:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=12078"},"modified":"2023-10-25T07:50:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T07:50:21","slug":"education-ministry-fails-to-implement-proposal-on-standardised-school-uniforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=12078","title":{"rendered":"Education Ministry Fails To Implement Proposal On Standardised School Uniforms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A proposal by National Assembly members to have a standardised uniform policy across the country has hit a snag with the Ministry of Education failing to implement a policy on the same despite a motion passing in Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu instead told the National Assembly that the ministry had issued a circular to schools directing that they allow parents to purchase uniforms where they could afford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cost of acquiring school uniforms for pupils and students has been listed as one of the school requirements that drive the cost of education up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/uniform-2-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/uniform-2-980x652.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/uniform-2-480x319.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposal by National Assembly members to have a standardised uniform policy across the country has hit a snag with the Ministry of Education failing to implement a policy on the same despite a motion passing in Parliament. Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu instead told the National Assembly that the ministry had issued a circular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/uniform.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12082,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions\/12082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}