How you can prepare your child for the back-to-school season

Children have gotten used to waking up late and following no schedules and parents are yet to feel the brunt of adjusting to school schedules

By LOLITA BUNDE

Schools pass burden of buying PPEs to parents

Some schools are demanding parents to pay for thermo guns for taking temperatures

By SUNDAY STANDARD TEAM

Schools reopening: Rules on Grade 4 and Class Eight tests out

Timetables, advance instructions, scoring guides and learners' questionnaire to be ready by Monday

By AUGUSTINE ODUOR

Blow as KNEC rules out transfer of candidates

Exams council says registration process is complete, data validated and finalists have to sit exams in their registered centres to avoid confusion

By AUGUSTINE ODUOR

Parents and students suffer as schools take new lines of business

Many parents with children in private schools are in frantic search for alternatives after proprietors turned to new business ventures

By KENNEDY GACHUHI, GLORIA ARADI AND HAROLD ODHIAMBO

Headache for candidates as schools are crowded, others shut down

Some candidates are forced to seek alternative schools to sit final exams from after their schools were shut down

By MERCY ADHIAMBO AND KEVIN OMOLLO

Learners to get random coronavirus tests

The testing is based on the premise that a majority of the cases, especially among children, are asymptomatic

By JULIUS CHEPKWONY AND GRAHAM KAJILWA

Students report back without fees and masks

School heads yesterday said some children reported without masks, with those in day schools being sent back home for protective gear

By AUGUSTINE ODUOR

Class 8, Grade 4 to start exams on Monday, only a week after reporting back to school

The exams will be evaluating the level of understanding of the pupils after spending more than six months at home

By DERRICK OLUOCH

Teachers remain upbeat despite low turnout of students as learning resumes

Some parents kept their children at home despite the directive that Grade Four, Class Eight and Form Four candidates return to school

By THE STANDARD TEAM

Parents skeptical as back to school off to a slow start

Stationery shops record low sales while bus stages that would have been jammed with students seeking transport were empty

By THE STANDARD TEAM

Five tips to prepare your worried children returning to school after coronavirus lockdown

Parents and pupils are not just concerned about the risk of Covid-19, but how children will adapt to new practices when schools resume

By MIRROR