BREAKING NEWS Govt closes all schools over teachers' strike

Friday, September 18, 2015

By MARYANNE GICOBI

The government has closed all public and private schools from Monday following the teachers' strike

However, KCPE and KCSE examinations candidates will remain, the Education ministry said on Friday.

In a circular sent to education officials, Education Secretary Leah Rotich said they had revised the school term dates for both private and public schools.

The circular said that Standard One to Standard Seven pupils and Form One to Form Three students would go home, as there was no learning going on since the commencement of the strike.

“The revision of the time dates for primary and secondary schools has been necessitated by the fact that very little or no learning has been going in most of these institutions in the last three weeks with the exception of the examination classes,” said Ms Rotich.