Education Principal Secretary, Dr. Belio Kipsang, has warned schools that do not issue receipts to students for Free Primary Education, FPE, and Free Secondary Education, FSE, funds that they will not be funded in future.

In a circular, the PS directs all secondary schools’ heads to acknowledge receipt of the monies by issuing official receipts. Kipsang says the receipts must be sent to his office through the regional directors of education, RCEs. He says all receipts must be received within one month of payments. “Failure to which further release of grants to such schools will be suspended,” said the PS.

Dr. Kipsang further instructs that all students must sign form lists showing their admission numbers and full names as they appear in the admissions register. The list should also contain the total amount awarded per child. “The list must be attached to payment vouchers kept in the school as per procedure and every student issued with an official school receipt for allocation,” said Kipsang. This new directive has been informed by the revelations that some schools’ heads were giving falsified students’ data to get more capitation.
The Circular comes as the government released Free Monies for tranche three of this year. Each student received monies for FSE, this term, as in the summary below:

1. Total allocation per student: KShs. Sh4,449.
2. Tuition: KSh1,602
3. Operations Vote Head: KSh2,847
4. Textbooks KSh961 per child.
5. KSh320  for exercise books.
6. Laboratory equipment KSh128 per child.
7. Teaching and learning allocated Sh96,
8. Chalks given KSh17
9. Reference or library materials: KSh32
10. Internal examinations allocated Sh48.
11. Repairs and maintenance has been allocated KSh170.82.
12. Local travel and transport per child:KSh170.82
13. Electricity water and conservancy: KSh256.23 per child
14. Administrative costs: KSh256.23 per child
15. Activity fees: KSh256.23 per child
16.  Insurance (medical cover and property cover) has been allocated KSh398.58
17. Personal emoluments: Sh1, 338.09 per child.

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The Kenya National Union of Teachers, KNUT, has issued a threat to take unspecified action if the Teachers service Commission, TSC, does not call them to a meeting in a span of seven days. This comes after the TSC wrote to KNUT, on 17th October 2018, postponing talks that were to be held today (Friday 19 October, 2018); between TSC AND KNUT. Read more details here: TSC Cancels Meeting with KNUT.

In a letter dated 18th October 2018, the KNUT Secretary, Hon. Wilson Sossion, blames TSC for mistrust and mischief over the latter’s move to cancel today’s talks. Today’s meeting was to highlight unresolved industrial issues raised by KNUT. The two sides failed to agree on these issues when they met in Naivasha few weeks ago. “You will note that as early as July 2018, we formally raised several pertinent issues affecting harmonious industrial relationships which called for urgent interventions,” says Sossion in the letter addressed to the TSC Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Nancy Njeri Macharia. Related content: Education cs urges KNUT and TSC to drop hard line stands

“Flowing from the said issues and demands, a meeting was convened on 24th August, 2018, after protracted exchange where certain agreed issues were tabled and way forward agreed. This way forward was to have a retreat in Naivasha where there aborted discussions owing to (the) hard line and unreasonable position taken by (the) Teachers Service Commission (TSC),” Sossion adds. The KNUT Secretary General says that the two sides had on 6th September, 2017, agreed that promotions of teachers by the TSC was mandatory. But, he blames TSC for renegading on this position and introducing ‘CPG Policies and Appraisals which utterly contradicts the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) and code of Regulations for Teachers (CORT), hence illegal.’

Teachers with higher qualifications have been waiting in the cold since 2014 when the TSC freezed promotions on attainment of higher qualifications. KNUT projects the numbers of such teachers at about 30,000. On Tuesday, this week, the KNUT Deputy Secretary General, Mr. Hesbon Otieno, issued a memo to all branch secretaries to collect data on teachers who had submitted their higher qualification credentials to the TSC for promotion. Read more details here: KNUT to collect data for teachers with higher qualifications ahead of Friday’s meeting with TSC

Sossion now wants the Commission to convene a meeting in seven days, effective yesterday, to address the unresolved issues. “In the circumstances, we hereby demand that within the next seven (7) days, a meeting be convened to which steps and actions will be taken without any reference to you,” Sossion, further, says. The letter is copied to the Education Cabinet Secretary, Amb. Amina Mohammed, Hon. Ukur Yatani, the Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of East African Community, Labour and Social Protection, Hon. Julius Kibiwott Melly, the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology, among others. This timeline will expire on 25/10/2018 and by then most schools should have closed for forms 1,2 and 3.

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CURRENT MANAGEMENT TEAM:

• Cabinet Secretary: Amb. Amina Chawahir Mohamed
• Chief Administrative Secretary and Principal Secretary
  State Department for University Education and Research: Prof. Collette A. Suda
• Principal Secretary – State Department of Education: Dr. Richard Belio Kipsang
• Principal Secretary-Vocational & Technical Training: Dr. Kevit Desai

• Director General: Mr. Elyas Abdi Jillaow

Education Cabinet Secretary, CS, Amb. Amina Mohammed and her Interior counter-part, Dr. Fred Matiang’i, have today lead a top officials’ meeting to lay down final preparations for this year’s Kenya Certificate of Primary Education, KCPE, and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, KCSE, exams that begin in less than a fortnight’s time. During today’s  meeting, security officials were given keys to the metallic containers where exam materials are to be kept.

Speaking at the function, Education CS, Amina, said that “the containers will have a double locking system. The Sub-County Directors of Education (SCDE) and the Deputy County Commissioners will each have the keys to secure and ensure they open and close the containers every day during the examination process.” Amina also noted that  30 examination centres had been placed under high surveillance and 192 others under amplified surveillance based on reported examination malpractice trends from 2015 to 2017.

The meeting which was held at he Kenya School of Government in Kabete, Kiambu County, saw the attendance of top government officials including: The Education CS, Amina Mohammed, Interior CS, Fred Matiang’i, Education PS, ICT CS, Mucheru, Belio Kipsang, and KNEC chair, Prof. George Magoha among others. The Education CS issued padlocks and keys for 459 examination containers to Deputy County Commissioners and the Sub-County Directors of Education.

Speaking at the same event, Education Ministry Principal Secretary, Dr. Belio Kipsang, announced that the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) will recall certificates of parents and teachers found aiding in examination cheating.

While giving elaborate measures put to safeguard the examination materials, Amina pronounced that 224 security officers will escort the examination materials from the, Kenya National Examinations Council, KNEC, warehouse to the examination storage facilities, after which they will be handed over to the sub-county Directors of Education and Deputy County Commissioners.

“All question papers will be escorted by armed security officers every day of the examination from collection to return of the answer scripts to the container and back to KNEC. We have identified several examination cartels that have been behind the sale of fake papers to unsuspecting parents and candidates. I will engage my colleagues at the Ministry of Interior, National Treasury, the Attorney General and the Director of Public Prosecutions to determine forensic means to deal with the proceeds accrued from this illegal exercise,” Amb. Amina added.

Addressing the meeting, today, Interior Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Fred Matatiang’i reiterated the ministry’s resolve to provide adequate security during the examination period and that he had recalled all officers on leave.  ”We assure the CS Education of our hundred percent support. Nobody will be on leave at the Ministry of Interior until 30th November, 2018. All children will sit for examinations wherever they are and areas troubled by insecurity will be under 24/7 surveillance,” Matiang’i said.

ICT CS, Mucheru, said his ministry will provide software security to reinforce other mechanisms put in place to safeguard the processes (Examination). CS Mucheru said that the ICT Ministry will provide accurate, reliable and timely technology. He also promised to deploy more than 300 staff members to the MOE to ensure that the examination will be conducted in an irregularity free environment.

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