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Abstract:
Administration of education is a critical component of managing this enterprise in the society. This process determines the development, control and assurance of quality of education designed and conducted by the society. In other words, administration is the basis of relevance and performance of the education system offered in the society. But like any other social and political programme in the society, education usually undergoes transformations which, in turn, create new challenges for the society. This is the situation in modern Kenya with respect to administration of formal education since colonial era in 1846. This is the focus of this paper which is designed to establish the main factors that are affecting the efficiency and effectiveness in administration of education in modern Kenya, its performance in the development agenda of modern Kenya, the relevance of the administered education to the local and international development needs and the expected quality of the out-comes and, by extension, the graduates of the practiced systems of education since colonial era. In short, the paper examines the tribulations of administering modern education in Kenya since then. However, the main concern in this discussion is, what has gone wrong with the administration of education in Kenya since independence in 1963. Hence the issue of Kenyan education system on the cross. The hard facts. Keywords:

Keywords: administration, cross, development, hard facts, education system

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