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The East African
Saturday January 02 2021
Students of Mugoiri Girls High School in Murang a County walk outside the Kenya National Archives in Nairobi on December 19, 2020. There are conflicting voices in Kenya s education sector following the re-opening of schools. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
Summary
The country has 23,000 public primary schools with more than 12 million pupils and more than three million students in secondary schools, not counting learners in private institutions.
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There are neither additional classes, ablution facilities, nor complementary funding for schools as all levels of Kenyan learners resume in-class learning on January 4 after a nine-month disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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THE STANDARD By
Augustine Oduor |
January 1st 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Part of 44 Teenagers at Kabete police station after they were arrested by Police officers at Mountain View Estate in Nairobi. The teens between the ages of 14-17 are suspected of committing illicit activities. Nov 22, 2020. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]
Barely a month after schools were shut in March last year, to stem spread of the coronavirus, Prisca Asere noticed several changes in her house routine.
The quantity of food portions consumed in her house, with five children, drastically went up, pushing up the cost of meals as most family members stayed at home.
School Reopening: Magoha Asks Teachers to Use Tree Shades for Classes
Education CS George Magoha addresses the media in October 2020
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Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha has asked school heads to use tree shades as classrooms to achieve social distance when learning resumes in January 2021.
Speaking during a tour inspecting the preparedness of schools in Murang a on Wednesday, December 30, the CS claimed that no country in the world had managed to build extra classrooms due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Teachers should become innovative, if the weather is as good as it is now, nothing stops the headteacher from holding some classes beneath the trees while others are inside, he stated