MP Wamuchomba criticizes schools for not giving students their awards because they are behind on fees.
MP Wamuchomba criticizes schools for not giving students their awards because they are behind on fees.
Githunguri MP Gathoni Wamuchomba has said that secondary schools should not keep students’ result slips when they haven’t paid their fees because it hurts their chances of going to college.
MP Wamuchomba said that the result slips, which belong to the students, shouldn’t be used as a weapon to get people to pay their fees.
“You mean that building classrooms or getting a school bus is more important than a student’s future who already gave you everything they could afford?” “Results slips belong to the people who were tested; they already paid Knec for them,” she said.
People are getting more and more worried that schools are putting new facilities ahead of the current needs of their students, as she said.
She also asked why unpaid fees couldn’t be taken care of with loans or some other form of payment arrangement instead of hanging on to certificates.
The MP said, “If we have to claim unpaid fees, the contract was between the school and the parents, not the students, some of whom are minors.”
Her words bring up an important problem that students from poor families face.
She says that she stepped in last week to help kids in her district who were having the same problem.
But she says she couldn’t help schools that weren’t in her area, so many kids are still having trouble.
In August, Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Magoha issued a directive making sure that all students who qualified for university admission should be admitted, even if they can’t pay their household contributions right away. This was done in response to worries about financial barriers to higher education.
The goal of this directive is to make sure that kids can go to college without having to worry about money.
Even so, registration is still low, in part because result slips are still being kept secret.
Section 10(1)(b) of the Kenya National Examinations Council Act, 2012 says that institutions or individuals cannot hide KNEC certificates or diplomas. This means that keeping result slips secret is against the law.
MP Wamuchomba criticizes schools for not giving students their awards because they are behind on fees.
