Education Newsbyte
Education News Highlits.
๐๏ธ##Secondary school fees to go up next year
A circular by Basic Education PS Jwan Julius says the fees holiday that saw some parents get reprieve of up to Sh8,500 will end as government reverts to fees charged before Covid-19.
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๐๏ธ## Senators Grill Education CS Machogu Over Ksh.873M For School Feeding Programme
CS Ezekiel Machogu told the Senate Education Committee that the ministry has so far spent the said amount in giving food aid to various schools affected by drought.
The revelation was however questioned by members of the committee who said no such program has been witnessed in schools in their counties.
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๐๏ธ## The Spire Bank riddle
MPs want to open an investigation into how auditing firm Ernst & Young (EY) handled the financial statements of troubled Spire Bank before the lender was bought by the giant teachersโ savings society, Mwalimu National Sacco.
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๐๏ธ##Probe into incident where pupil was sodomized repeatedly in school toilet intensifies
Police have intensified their investigations into the incident at Saint Kevin Hills school Nyali where a six-year-old pupil was sodomized in the school toilet.
The head of the Coast Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Protection Unit Head Andrew Warui revealed that investigations were ongoing to establish the gaps that led to the abuse and how it progressed without raising the attention of the school’s top management.
Sodomized repeatedly
According to the victim’s mother, her son is alleged to have been sodomized since January this year inside the school toilets and the family discovered the unfortunate ordeal after the minor began passing stool on himself.
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๐๏ธ##Over 1 million pupils out of school, Unicef report says
Almost 1,130,000 children between six to 13 years are out of school, a report by the United Nations Childrenโs Fund (Unicef) shows.
The report says the situation worsened due to Covid-19 lockdowns followed by drought in some regions.
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๐๏ธ##Nancy Chege โ National Parents Association: Grade six students should transit in the primary school and call it lower primary. It is impractical to put a 12-year-old student in grade six with a 17-year-old student in the same school.
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๐๏ธ##Man Arrested After Dressing As A Schoolgirl To Sneak Into Girlfriendโs School
Police officers have arrested an 18-year-old man who dressed up as a schoolgirl before sneaking into a girl’s secondary school to visit his girlfriend.
According to aย Directorate of Criminal Investigationsย report released on Tuesday, the young man’s plan was foiled by schoolgirls who raised the alarm minutes after 10pm.
The devious student was dressed entirely in the girls’ school uniform, and he had also stuffed his chest to give the appearance of breasts.
โThe young man from Gatugi Day secondary school who was dressed in the girlsโ school uniform from head to toe, joined a group of girls as they walked to their dormitories from their evening preps, minutes past 10pm,โ said DCI.
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๐๏ธ##Parents pick students as schools close for third term holiday
Parents and guardians on Tuesday turned up to receive their children as schools close for the December holiday.
Most of the students were dropped off by their school buses at Nairobi.
Schools close ahead of the national examinations set to begin on November 28 for KCPE, while the KCSE exam will be done from December 1 to December 23.
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๐๏ธ##How Ruto plans to create jobs for youths
The government also launched an initiative dubbed the Kenya Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship Accelerator Programme to createย employment for the youths.
Through K-YEEAP, one million youths will be employed in the next one year.
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