State to pay half its component

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By JINA AMBA
THE Government will pay up 50 per cent of its school fee component this week, Education Minister Jimmy Uguro says.
Uguro told The National yesterday that they had tasked the Treasury Department to do that this week as the funds were available.
He said school would start soon so the Government would pay half of its 62 per cent state component of school fees so that students could go to school.
Uguro said schools did not have to turn children away because every child had a right to be educated.
He said parents would pay their 37 per cent component of the school fees in the fourth term.
Uguro said the Government aimed to ensure parents took some responsibility for their children’s education.
“We are sharing the responsibility so education is everyone’s responsibility,” he said.
The total funding for the government tuition fee subsidy policy (GTFS) in 2021 will be K486,351,600.
This funding remains the same as last year’s allocation.
GTFS will have two components – a school operations and functional grant of K388,351,600 (80 per cent) and a commodity component of K97,000,000 (20 per cent).
“We will look into a decentralised procurement model that can encourage small to medium enterprise (SME) and would be affordable,” he said.

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  • Ministers come and go and decisions made last year on the fees for all levels and categories for this year remains the same as last year. Its been penciled in and that stays as it is. All Schools Administrators and the general Public are quiet aware of the School Fee Structure (System) as approved by the Department of Education & the DHERST in 2020. Don’t go back to the drawing board and start making confusing and conflicting announcements and statements to us all this new school year. Let us get the same copies on the fee information and submit that with our Bank Loans Application and others earlier to take up the Bank Loans and pay for our Childrens’ School Fees to the respective Institutions on time.

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