Form One Admission Under Free Secondary Education Kicks Off

The admission of the 2018 Form one students begun on Monday under the free secondary education programme in various schools across the country.

A statement from the Education Permanent Secretary Belio Kipsang, a total of 29.5 Billion shillings have already been disbursed to schools by the government for the exercise.

Following a directive from the Ministry of Education, the same admission will also be marking the opening up of day scholars from Thursday in a number of National Schools and County schools within Nairobi

This move has been taken so as to maximize on the available resources in these schools so as to accommodate enough students while at the same time help to decongest bed capacity due to the expected increase on the number of students to be enrolled due to free Secondary education.

The schools that will be admitting the day scholars include Kenya High School, Starehe Boys Centre, Moi Forces Academy, Nairobi School, Lenana School, Pangani Girls High School and Moi Girls Secondary School, Nairobi.

Others are Ngara Girls Secondary School, Buruburu Girls High School, Embakasi Girls, Arya Parklands, Nembu Girls High School, Dagoretti High School, Lang’ata Secondary School, Upper Hill, St George’s Girls, State House Girls, Hospital Hill and Ofafa Jericho.

All students joining form one will be issued with a total of 6 textbooks in core subjects – mathematics, English, Kiswahili, Chemistry, Physics and Biology.

A total of 7.5 billion shillings was spent by the government on this programme that was flagged off last week by President Uhuru Kenyatta.

While releasing the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) 2017 results last months, Education cabinet Secretary Dr. Matiang’i disclosed that all the 993,718 candidates will be expected to join Form One.

This number is a 25 percent increase from the students that were admitted to secondary schools last year whereby the number of form one student was 790,680.