Fees remain high despite guidelines
What you need to know:
- Even a warning from the Teachers’ Service Commission (TSC) has not deterred some school heads from increasing schools fees.
A number of public secondary schools have devised ingenious ways to charge additional funds as school fees in disregard of guidelines released by the government last year.
In a move that goes against an agreement that was reached in January between the Ministry of Education, teachers’ unions and school heads associations, schools have re-introduced levies for items that are catered for by the Ministry.
According to the guidelines, parents are required to pay Sh53,554 for boarding school, Sh9,374 for day schools and Sh37,210 for special need schools, while the government provides a subsidy of Sh12,870 for each learner per year.
Even a warning from the Teachers’ Service Commission (TSC) has not deterred some school heads from increasing schools fees.
However, Kenya Secondary School Heads Association Chairman John Awiti said he was not aware of any extra charges imposed by school heads.
“We agreed that the issue of extra levies should be handled at the ministry level,” he said.
Some of the illegal charges include holiday tuition fee, academic performance and improvement fee, among others.
