According to Ezekiel Machogu, the education cabinet secretary, students shifting to junior secondary schools this month won’t have to pay any tuition.
The government has already set aside Ksh.15,000 for each of the more than 1 million Grade 6 students who took the KPSEA examinations in November of last year, according to Machogu, who stated this on Monday.
“President William Ruto has ordered the Treasury to set aside Ksh. 15,000 per student as capitation to support free education in all public schools. The government would invest a total of Ksh. 9.6 billion in junior secondary students’ education this fiscal year, according to the CS.
The amount of Ksh. 22, 244 that senior secondary pupils currently receive is practically similar to this, he continued.
The amount of Ksh. 22, 244 that senior secondary pupils currently receive is practically similar to this, he continued.
Only schools with boarding wings would be permitted to charge fees, according to Machogu, who was speaking at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) headquarters in Nairobi.
No school should charge Grade 7 students any fees, he argued, unless those schools offer boarding wings.
Machogu further pointed out that Junior Secondary Schools are no longer permitted to charge Grade 7 students an entry fee.
This is because the learners were enrolled for Grade 6 at the same school, which has a 100% transition policy.
He explained, “This is the fundamental obligation that elementary and secondary basic education be obligatory and free.
KPSEA exams were taken by 1,287,597 pupils in Grade 6 between November 28 and November 30.
However, the placement of students in junior secondary schools did not use the exam results; instead, they were used to track student progress.
In order to evaluate student learning progress and inform stakeholders in the education sector of areas of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) that need improvement, President Ruto requested that the exam be implemented.
He recommended that the junior secondary schools—Grades 7, 8, and 9—be housed in the current primary schools in his decree from December 1.
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