A section of Education stakeholders in Uasin Gishu County has urged the Ministry of Education to consider reviewing the mode of school fees payment for parents.
This is in what the stakeholders led by the county’s Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary Sammy Bor says will cushion parents from financial difficulties.
“We urge the Ministry of Education to review the mode of school fees payment so that our children can learn with ease,” Bor said.
Speaking to the press at his office in Eldoret town, the KNUT official however noted that school to run depending on the payment of school fees and that parents should also understand when their children are sent back home for the same.
“For the school to run, the school fees payment is important since all the activities are dependent on this,” said Bor.
He added that the COVID-19 pandemic resulted to high cost of living in the country and the situated has affected most Kenyans including parents.
“The COVID-19 pandemic led to financial difficulties in the country and we sympathize with parents since they have to struggle to get this money,” he said.
But with class eight and form four students preparing to sit for the national examinations later in November, the teachers union official say there should be a way in which the candidates are not disturbed by being asked to go home because of school fees.
Outgoing Education Cabinet Secretary Prof. George Magoha on Monday said that the national examinations will go on as scheduled.
The exams will begin on November 28, 2022 while marking is expected to be complete by December.
Results are expected to have been released by January 23, 2023.
