Education PS Sends Warning to Principals on FSE Funds
The disbursed Free Secondary Education (FSE) money should be used wisely, according to a directive from the Ministry of Education to the principals of Junior Secondary Schools.
In the Handbook on Financial Management for Public Schools, Teacher Training Colleges, and Vocational Colleges in Kenya, which has been reviewed, he requested that they abide by the financial policies set forth in it.
The MOE, the Public Finance Management Act of 2012, and the Public Procurement and Disposal Act of 2025 all issued the manual.
The Ministry has released the FSE funds for JSS institutions to cover the second term of 2023, broken down into Tuition Account and Operation Account, where a student is allocated a sum of Ksh1, 680 and Ksh909.30, respectively, according to a memo signed by Kipsang dated June 15, 2023 and addressed to all county directors of education.
Dr. Belio requested that the heads of the schools send copies of the official school receipt to the Sub County Director of Education and County Director of Education together with the PS for both the tuition and operation accounts to acknowledge receipt of the monies.
They must also submit an allocation of funds with the full signatures of the granted funds and the recipients to the County Director of Education via the Sub County Director of Education.
The letter instructed that each student should receive a school official receipt for allocation and that these lists should be attached to the payment voucher retained at the school in accordance with protocol.
“This must be sent with money within two weeks. Schools will be removed from the programme if their acknowledgement is not received at the programme headquarters within the allotted period.
Also to be highlighted is that any school with enrollments below the threshold for this disbursement will be subject to recovery, according to the memo.
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The Operational Account will be used to bank all GOK subsidies, with the exception of the tuition payments, while the monies in the Tuition Account must only be used for the purchase of instructional materials.
The circular said, in part, that “Each Account must have a separate cash book and Schools must post on their notice boards the amounts received.
A few schools, according to the PS, were not included in the allocation because of contradicting school characteristics, but it was guaranteed that they would receive the money once the specifics were established.
The Cabinet Secretary, the Ministry of Education, the Secretary/CEO of the Teachers Service Commission, the Director of School Audit Services, and all Regional Directors of Education received copies of the circular.
Education PS Sends Warning to Principals on FSE Funds
