Parents’ agony as CS Jacob Kaimenyi tells schools to ignore proposal to cut fees

Education Cabinet secretary Jacob Kaimenyi

NAIROBI: The New Year begins with heightened activity in the education sector amid a looming teacher’s strike, debate over the ban on schools ranking in national examinations and yet to be implemented proposal on reduced school fees.

For parents of millions of children in public secondary schools, the hope of paying lower fees in 2015 appears to have been deferred, at least for now, after the Ministry of Education directed schools to stick to fee guidelines issued in 2013.