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Half-time break introduced amid high school riots
Wednesday, November 03, 2021
Education Director Julius Jwan at Jogoo House, Nairobi, on March 2nd, 2020.
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- The Ministry of Education revised the school calendar for the second semester and allowed a four-day break in the wake of the student unrest.
- In a circular published on Tuesday, Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Education Julius Jwan said that students will start their semester break on November 19 and will study again on November 23.
- Originally, the school calendar had excluded the semester break in the original calendar and students were supposed to take a break on December 23 for the Christmas break.
The Ministry of Education revised the school calendar for the second semester and allowed a four-day break in the wake of the student unrest.
In a circular published on Tuesday, Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Education Julius Jwan said that students will start their semester break on November 19 and will study again on November 23.
Originally, the school calendar had excluded the half-year break in the original calendar and students were supposed to take a break on December 23 for the Christmas break.
School principals had called for a halftime break to ease pressure from a challenging crash program that has sparked a wave of unrest across the country.
“It was decided that the semester break will begin on Friday, November 19, 2021. The students will be back on Tuesday, November 23, 2021 â€, communicated the PS in the circular.
While other terms have fractions, the second term has none.
The crash program also had shorter vacations, as four school semesters were squeezed into the calendar year instead of the usual three.
This was done to reclaim time lost last year when schools were closed for ten months in the country after the first report of Covid-19 in March.
The school principals wrote to the ministry last week asking if they could take the break as riots spread across the country. Since the beginning of the current semester there have been several cases of school fires, the unrest being attributed to the lack of half a semester break during the learning unit.
