The Ministry of Education has on Tuesday announced new dates in which schools will be opened in 2018.
The directive issued by Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang states that primary and secondary schools will open for the first term on January 2 and close on April 6.
Schools will later open for the second term on April 26 and break on August 3.
Thereafter the third term will commence on August 27 and end on October 26 to pave way for the national examinations. Whereas KCPE will be held between October 29 and November 5, the secondary examinations will be held from November 5 to November 30.
Here is the statement from the Ministry:
Last month, the Education CS announced changes in the national examination calendar ahead of the Presidential election set for October 26.
Dr Matiang'i stated that the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) Home Science paper that was scheduled for October 26th, has been moved to October 30th.
He further noted that the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) candidates would start their examination on Tuesday, October 31st and end on November 2nd.
According to the Education CS, the change of the examination dates was necessitated by the fact that some schools have been gazetted as polling stations and tallying centers for the election.
He further announced that all primary school students would close for the December holidays on Wednesday, October 25th while Form 1, 2 and 3 students will go on holiday on October 24th.
