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Government releases Sh16b for school capitation

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Students at Nakuru city reporting back to their varoius school after schools opened for the third term countrywide on August 29,2023. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

School heads can now breathe easy after the Education ministry on Friday announced it will next week release Sh16 billion for capitation.

This comes after headteachers and principals on Thursday intimated to The Standard that the institutions were under a financial impasse that threatened to disrupt the examination preparations.

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