Parents face school fees nightmare

According to the chairman, different schools had different projects and the fact that their locations brought up different challenges also contributed to the difference in the fee guidelines.

“While day schools have development projects, boarding school’s have their own experiences. At the same time, while a boarding school in Mombasa may pay electricity bills those in Tana River may be using a generator,” he explains.

A survey of schools in the North Rift reveals that a number of schools in the region have increased fees by figures ranging from Sh6,000 to Sh10,000 “to cater for the hugh costs of running the institutions.”

In Koibatek, Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) chairman, Mr Luka Keter said fees at the schools within the district had not been increased awaiting a general meeting by all the school boards are discussing the matter.

Mr Keter, who is the headmaster of Rosoga Boarding Secondary School also sings the same song: Inflation. “There is no way out, we must increase the fees because the school cannot continue running on the same money they were collecting due to inflation,” he notes.

He says that school fees had remained the same yet food prices had continued shooting in the past few years.