Schools have today opened for the first term of this academic year with a return to normalcy.
The calendar which had been disrupted by Covid-19 has now been adjusted to the initial one.
Pre-primary, primary and secondary schools will start opening today and will close on April 21 after 13 weeks.
Students will break for half term from June 29 to July 2 and spend their holiday from August 12 to August 27.
The third term will run from August 28 to November 11 while the December holiday will take place from November 3 to January.
KCPE national exams are scheduled for November 6 to 9 while the KCSE exam commences from November 10 to December 1 for three weeks.
Parents will now pay full school fees after the government scrapped the education subsidy.
Education CS Ezekiel Machogu clarified the move by the government to scrap the subsidy on secondary school fees.
Speaking in November last year at Wajir High school, Machogu said the move was occasioned by a return to normalcy in the school calendar.
"From January 23, we will have three terms the way it used to be before so the fees structure remains the same as that of two years ago," Machogu said.
This is after a circular addressed to senior education officials indicated the changes in school fees.
"Anybody saying the figure has been changed, that is not here. Changing school fees would need another task force," he said.
Due to the compressed school calendar which was occasioned by Covid-19, the ministry had reduced fees by Sh8,500.
According to a circular from the ministry, parents will have to pay Sh53,554 for national schools, as was before the reduction.
This will apply to national and extra county schools in seven counties.
The new guidelines were written to all county directors of education.
"The counties are Nairobi, Mombasa, Nakuru, Kisumu, Nyeri, Thika and Eldoret," the circular reads.
The new directive applies to boarding schools.
