Review of secondary school fees to begin next week, says Kaimenyi

By AUGUSTINE ODUOR

A team formed to review school fees in secondary schools will start work on Monday next week, Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi has said.

Prof Kaimenyi said part of the team’s work will be to assess how much money should be levied as fees in public schools in the face of the rising cost of living.

“It is a high level team and they are ready. We expect to get the proper fees structure by April or May,’ he said.

The Ministry of Education admitted that this year’s Form One selection was challenging and promised to revise the selection criteria to be used next year.

Education PS Bellio Kipsang asked secondary school principals to use last year’s fees structure and allow all students to be admitted in the schools they were selected to join.

“We do not want to hear that a child has been sent a way because of school fees. Let all children be admitted because those are the schools they chose,” he said.

The PS was responding to a barrage of questions from the House committee on Education, Science and Technology that demanded to know the ministry’s plans to keep Form One students in school.