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Education Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi (right) with Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang and Kenya National Examinations Council chairman Kabiru Kinyanjui at a past event. The Education ministry has asked primary and secondary school head teachers to adhere to guidelines on the use of free school funds disbursed last week. FILE PHOTO |
The Education ministry has asked primary and secondary school headteachers to adhere to guidelines on the use of free school funds disbursed last week.
The school heads have been asked to acknowledge receipt of the funds in writing, by issuing school official receipts for both tuition and operational accounts to the principal secretary for Education before the next disbursement.
The instructions are contained in a circular, dated September 26, to county directors and sub-county directors of education and signed by Mr Orwa Ondego, on behalf of the Principal Secretary for Education, Dr Belio Kipsang.
“A list signed by each student indicating their official names as they appear in the school register, class, admission number, and amount received should be forwarded by the school principal, with appended signatures to the ministry headquarters through the sub-county Directors of Education,” the circular reads in part.
The principals have, in addition, been asked to submit an updated and accurate student enrolment for 2015 through the respective sub-county directors by March 31 after Form 1 admission.
The enrolment figures for March 31 next year will be used for computation of all subsequent disbursements and will remain in force to term one of 2016 with the exception of newly registered schools.
COPIES OF TRANSFER LETTERS
To guard against double funding, schools principals will be required to forward copies of transfer letters to the headquarters and apply for a refund from the respective former schools of the students they admitted, the circular notes.
The government wired Sh6.8 billion to the school accounts of public primary and secondary schools for the free education programme last week.
Of the amount, about Sh4.5 billion went towards the free day secondary education programme to benefit 2,171,504 students in 7,599 public secondary schools.
Some Sh2, 414,746,089 went to 21,208 public primary school to benefit 8,903,746 pupils under the free primary school education programme.
The amount constitutes 20 per cent of total funds and the final amount of the total amount of money the schools were to receive during the 2014 school calendar year.
