Kitip Secondary prepares to enrol extra students

THE Kitip Lutheran Secondary School is the only school in Western Highlands prepared to take on extra students next year under the government’s free education policy.
The Grade 9 and 10 programmes used to be conducted at Kitip Secondary would now be shifted to the Kindak Lutheran church leaders training centre.
Principal Robert Kauna said this would create space at Kitip to accommodate more Grade 11 students.
Kauna said the first 200 Grade 9 intake for next year would enroll at Kindak. They have five dormitories, mess facilities and teachers’ houses.
He said they used the K120,000 school fee subsidies given by the provincial government this year to renovate the infrastructure at Kindak.
Kauna said Kitip was preparing to cater for extra students.
He said in Kitip they had accommodation to cater for 600 students but due to demand, they could accommodate up to 1000 students.
He said it was why the school board passed a resolution to shift the Grade 9 and 10 programmes to Kindak.
It was approved by the church council and provincial education board.
Kauna said the free education policy had put pressure on the school to cater for the influx of students enrolling next year.
He said Kitip needed more funding to upgrade its existing infrastructure and build new classrooms, teachers’ houses, science laboratory, library and buy materials for the students.