Silent crisis as Form One students flock schools without tuition fees

Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha chats with Kelvin Munyovi at their home in Ponda Mali Estate in Nakuru county in a bid to trace students yet to join form one. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Principals are managing a silent crisis even as efforts to mop up candidates under the 100 per cent transition to join secondary schools get underway, with a number of students unable to raise tuition fees.

A huge number of these students, it emerged, scored high marks in Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examinations and reported to secondary schools without fees or adequate admission items.