On August 18, cabinet secretary for education, George Magoha, pleaded with school administrators not to dismiss pupils early owing to budgetary difficulties.
“I beg school administrators not to send students home for fees during these economic times since we are in very difficult times,”
CS Magoha was speaking at the commissioning of two Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) classrooms at Mary Leakey Girls High School in Kiambu County.
Schools resumed operations Thursday after a two-week suspension imposed on by the elections on August 9. The second half of the term should extend through September 16 based on the most recent calendar provided by the Ministry of Education.
Parents all throughout the country were forced to dig deeper into their pockets to pay school fees with shorter terms when the government changed the school calendar.
While the nation’s second phase of CBC classrooms was at 80 percent overall, the departing CS noted during an inspection tour of Kiambu County that Kiambu County was at 94 percent.
Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) national exams for the 2022 academic year are scheduled to take place between November 28 and December 23.
