Ministry Reduces School Capitation
Professor George Magoha, Cabinet Secretary for Education, has stated that the Ministry has reduced the capitation each school receives due to the shorter academic term, which begins on Tuesday.
Magoha told the press at Kereri Girls High School in Kisii town that the government had ensured that every primary and secondary school received their capitation by Friday.
According to Magoha, the government has already allocated 25.9 percent of its budget to capitation.
Magoha also urged school administrators not to send students home because of a lack of school fees.
CS Magoha also stated that the government would begin the second phase of CBC classroom construction this week, and that the government was working with private schools to convert their primary schools to junior secondary schools.
He urged the next government to build more classrooms so that children could learn.
According to Magoha, the government has distributed capitation funds to primary and secondary schools, and the funds will be in schools by the end of the week.
Speaking to the press at the groundbreaking ceremony for Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) classrooms at Kereri Girls on the outskirts of Kisii town, the CS stated that the capitation funds are valuable and that school managers must be able to effectively use them.
“Day schools are 75% of the schools and everything has been paid. There is no way the government can increase the capitation money at this stage in life when we are already giving 25.9% of the budget to the children,” he said.
Despite the rising cost of living, Prof Magoha encouraged parents to return their children to school and pay as much tuition as they could.
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He expressed gratitude to the teachers for ensuring that learning was not disrupted during the Covid-19 period and encouraged them to continue supporting the children’s learning.
Ministry Reduces School Capitation
