Junior Secondary Admission Fee Prohibited
Education CS Ezekiel Machogu has prohibited Junior Secondary Schools from charging Grade 7 students an admission fee.
This is owing to the 100 percent transition policy at the same school where the Grade 6 learners were enrolled.
“This is the constitutional requirement that basic education, from primary to secondary, be compulsory and free,” he said.
Machogu declared that no school fees will be charged to students transferring to Junior Secondary School this month.
Machogu set on Monday that the government has already allotted Ksh 15,000 for each of the more than one million Grade 6 pupils who sat the KPSEA in November of last year.
President William Ruto has ordered the Treasury to set aside Ksh 15,000 per student as a capitation to allow free education in all public schools.
President William Ruto has ordered the Treasury to set aside Ksh 15,000 per student as a capitation to allow free education in all public schools. The government will spend a total of Ksh9.6 billion on junior secondary learners in this calendar year, according to the Cabinet Secretary.
This is about equivalent to the Ksh.22,244 that senior secondary school students will continue to receive.
Between November 28 and December 30, a total of 1,287,597 sixth-grade pupils sat the KPSEA.
However, the examination results were not employed in the placement of learners in Junior Secondary Schools; rather, they would be incorporated into the process of monitoring student progress.
President Ruto requested that the examination be used to assess learning progress and give education sector stakeholders with input on areas of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) that require intervention.
In a directive dated December 1, he instructed that the junior secondary schools (Grades 7, 8, and 9) be housed in the existing primary schools.
Junior Secondary Admission Fee Prohibited