§ Mr. J. Johnsonasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the number of Government controlled schools in Kenya and the number of administrative officers employed by the Education Department.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydAt the 30th June, 1958. there were 122 Government schools of all types. Twenty-three were European schools, 48 Asian, (primary schools32W with secondary modern courses being counted twice); 10 Arab, and 41 African. These figures exclude aided and unaided schools (of which there were 4,549 African, 37 European, 111 Asian and 1 Arab).
Thirty officers of the rank of education officer and above are provided under the 1959–60 estimates for work on administrative and general duties. In addition there is provision for 535 officers of similar rank to be employed on European, African, Arab, Asian and technical education and on special schemes. I cannot, without inquiries which will take some considerable time, say how many of these officers are occupied full-time on administration and how many are provided only for teaching.