Most of the parents have been facing much problems in paying school fees for their learners to get education over a period of time. This became more worse when most of learners could drop out of schools due lack school fees.
The introduction of the free secondary education program by the Government of Kenya where the burden of paying fee was cut at a given percentage where a parent was supposed to pay a certain amount of fees and the remaining paid by the Government.
This really helped much where learners were able to access education without much problems.A new school fees structure for academic year 2021, 2022 and 2023 has been announced by the Ministry of Kenya through the revision of the current 2020 school fee calendar.
This decision was arrived at after considering the number of school weeks the new academic year will have. The secretary in charge of Ministry of Education and department of Early learning and basic Education Dr. Julius said.
The information contained in the circular from the government is that the National and Extra-county schools in major towns like Kisumu, Nyeri, Thika, Eldoret, Mombasa, Nakuru and Nairobi will have to pay an annual maximum school fee of 45,000 shillings which is a revised figure from the previous figure of around 55,000 shillings.
The break down of the fee structure of the boarding schools in these towns will be as follows;
1.TEACHING,LEARNING MATERIALS AND EXAMS
GOK- KSH 4,144.00
PARENT -KSH0.00
TOTAL OF KSH 4,144.00
2.BOARDING EQUIPMENT AND STORES
GOK -KSH 0.00
PARENT-KSH 24,935.00
TOTAL OF KSH 24,935. 00
3.MAINTANCE AND IMPROVEMENT
GOK- KSH 5,000.00
PARENT – KSH 2,000.00
TOTAL OF KSH 7,000.00
4. OTHER VOTE HEADS
GOK-KSH 9,400.00
PARENT- KSH 17,267.00
TOTAL OF KSH 26,667.00
5. ACTIVITY FEE
GOK-KSH 1,500.00
PARENT –KSH 798.00
A TOTAL OF KSH 2,298.00
6. MEDICAL AND INSURANCE
GOK– KSH 2,000.00
PARENT -KSH 0.00
TOTAL OF KSH 2,000.00
7. SMASSE
GOK– KSH 200.00
PARENT– KSH 0.00
TOTAL OF KSH 200.00
8.TOTAL SCHOOL FEES
FEE PAID BY THE GOK IS KSH 22,244.00
FEE PAID BY THE PARENT IS KSH 45,000
ANNUAL SCHOOL FEES KSH 67,244.00
For the Extra-County, county and sub-county boarding schools which are not from the major seven towns listed above, parents who will be taking their kids to these schools will be paying a maximum annual school fee of 35,000 shillings.
The breakdown will be as follows;
1.TEACHING,LEARNING MATERIALS AND EXAMS
GOK- KSH 4,144.00
PARENT -KSH0.00
TOTAL OF KSH 4,144.00
2.BOARDING EQUIPMENT AND STORES
GOK -KSH 0. 00
PARENT-KSH 20,830.00
3.MAINTANCE AND IMPROVEMENT
GOK- KSH 5,000.00
PARENT – KSH 2,000.00
TOTAL OF KSH 7,000.00
4. OTHER VOTE HEADS
GOK-KSH 9,400.00
PARENT- KSH 11,70.00
TOTAL OF KSH 21,070.00
5. ACTIVITY FEE
GOK-KSH 1,500.00
PARENT –KSH 500.00
A TOTAL OF KSH 2,000.00
6. MEDICAL AND INSURANCE
GOK– KSH 2,000.00
PARENT -KSH 0.00
TOTAL OF KSH 2,000.00
7. SMASSE
GOK– KSH 200.00
PARENT– KSH 0.00
TOTAL OF KSH 200.00
8.TOTAL SCHOOL FEES
FEE PAID BY THE GOK IS KSH 22,244.00
FEE PAID BY THE PARENT IS KSH 35,000.00
ANNUAL SCHOOL FEE KSH 57,244
The government of Kenya through the program of free secondary education to all learners who wish to take the secondary school education, will pay a total of 22,244 shillings to every learner in the new calendar year which was effected on July 2021.
Day schools fee structure will be as shown below,
Most of the parents in Kenya will be highly relieved from the extra burden of the paying a lot of school fees for the purpose of education of their learners.
This issince the larger part of the academic year the learners will not spend time in school due to the adverse effect of the covid19 pandemic to the economy, The Government made this good decision that every parent will be smiling at.
