Huge cuts in school fees to ease burden

Head teachers at the Kenya Secondary Schools Head Teachers Association’s 39th annual conference at Wildwaters in Mombasa. [Photo: Maarufu Mohamed/Standard]

Mombasa, Kenya: Parents could shoulder a lighter burden if proposals to slash fees for public secondary schools by more than half are adopted. National schools will charge parents some Sh49,081 should the new fees guidelines become effective.

This would be a drastic reduction as some have been charging in excess of Sh100,000, which has seen secondary education become a preserve of the rich.