Those KCSE and KCPE candidates set to seat for their exams in 2020 are set to enjoy a waiver in fees after Treasury CS Ukur Yatani’s proposal in parliament today.
The CS announced that the government will waive examination fees for all KCPE and KCSE candidates
“We shall allocate Ksh4 Billion for the examination fee waiver for KCSE & KCPE candidates,” he stated. That wasn’t all as the Treasury CS further allocated Ksh59.4 Billion for free day secondary education, Ksh2 Billion for recruitment of 5,000 teachers, Ksh1.8 Billion for the school feeding program, Ksh6.3 Billion for equipping of TVETs and Ksh16.8 Billion to the Higher Education Loans Board.
This comes a week after President Uhuru Kenyatta announced that schools would re-open at the beginning of September with the national exams being held from February next year.
Uhuru said he expects progressive normalcy to resume in the education sector by September 1 and has directed the Education Ministry to consult with the Health experts so as to come up with a new calendar by mid-August.
“Following stakeholder’s consultations in the education sector – the Ministry of Education jointly with the Ministry of Health will issue and publicize guidelines on a gradual and progressive return to normalcy in the education sector by the Third Term, from 1st September 2020,” the president said in an address from State House.
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“I have applied my mind to the different scenarios presented by our experts. And I have reconciled myself to the fact that to ‘open’ or not to ‘open’ is not a dilemma between a right and a wrong. It is a dilemma between two rights,” he added.
