ABSTRACT
The year 1920 offers a convenient starting point in a discussion of the development of education in Kenya for two main reasons: first, in that year Kenya became a Crown colony of Britain and was no longer administered as a territorial segment of the British East African Protectorate but as a separate British territory having its own legislative council; secondly, after 1920 the authority of the Colonial Office was felt more definitely on educational matters which previously had been largely the concern of missionary societies. The direction and content of primary education in Kenya since the colonial period has been a source of continuous controversy. Combined with the expansion programme of primary education, the government has made some efforts to reform the quality of instruction. In 1967 the Ministry of Education published the first unified syllabus for all primary schools.
