79. On Technical and Vocational Training, increased enrolment with a bias towards increasing the intake of females in non-traditional areas, reduction of overhead costs of running colleges, and rationalization of teaching staff in line with relevant training requirements remain a priority. 80. In Higher Education, Government intends to double enrolment, reduce overhead costs from 185 US dollars to 65 US dollars or below and increase and rationalize staffing levels with appropriate qualification from 20% to 75%. 81. The above undertakings shall be implemented under the Medium Term Expenditure Framework where Government will facilitate the implementation through formulation of the priority areas into programmes; monitor and evaluate the progress periodically; determine outcome indicators; assist districts to develop plans; and establish a development programme which will take care of capacity development. 82. Between the years 2007 and 2012, government projected growth in costs of the total annual public education programmes from 2007 and 2012 at 80%. The increase amount was pegged at MK23.7 billion, half of which was targeted towards recurrent spending which the remainder was slated for investment spending. 83. The 80% increase was attributed to building of new schools; new and rehabilitated classrooms and other facilities in existing schools; making grants for shelters for communities waiting for construction of classrooms; teaching staff accommodation in rural areas; teacher education; investment programmes for administration and other institutions; and university investment funding in recurrent grants under the operational budget. 84. The Basic Indicators for education include literate rates for the youth; pre-primary school participation; primary school participation; and secondary school participation. See Table 1 below: 24 | P a g e