[Benjamin Sakwa,Standard]Candidates who sat their Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exam in March are set to join Form One starting Monday. Some 36,254 candidates were selected to join national schools, 201,067 learners were to join extra-county schools, 213,591 candidates will go to county schools while 718,516 are set to join sub-county schools. “We expect the government to increase capitation now that it has reduced school fees burden on parents. Another principal whose school has arrears of over Sh6 million wondered why the government failed to involve all stakeholders before reducing school fees. “While classifying schools and allocations as national, extra-county and county schools, food prices are uniform in the market and we suffer due to low allocations in our county schools,” said the principal.

Source: Standard Digital July 31, 2021 18:01 UTC