New Guidelines on JSS Capitation Funding by MoE
New Guidelines on JSS Capitation Funding by MoE. The Ministry of Education has released new laws on the transfer of capitation funds to junior secondary schools under Free Secondary Education (FSE).
School administrators are urged to follow the financial standards in the updated Handbook on Financial Management for Public Schools, Teacher Training Colleges, and Vocational Colleges in Kenya, which was released by the Ministry of Education PS Dr. Belio Kipsang.
The guidebook was released by the MOE, the Public Finance Management Act of 2012, and the Public Procurement and Disposal Act of 2025.
According to a circular from Kipsang dated June 15, 2023, which is sent to all county directors of education, 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 each student is allotted a sum of Ksh1, 680 and Ksh909.30.
Dr. Belio asked the heads of the schools to submit formal school receipts to the PS for both the tuition and operation accounts, along with copies to the subcounty director of education and the county director of education, in order to acknowledge receipt of the funds.
Additionally, they have to provide an allocation of monies via the Sub County Director of Education to the County Director of Education bearing the complete signatures of the grantors and the recipients.
New Guidelines on JSS Capitation Funding by MoE
In accordance with the letter’s instructions, each student was to receive a school official receipt for allocation, and these lists were to be connected to the payment voucher that was to be kept on file at the school.
“Within two weeks, this and payment must be sent. If a school’s acknowledgement is not received at the program headquarters within the designated time, the school will be dropped from the program.
The memo also emphasizes that any institution with enrollments below the minimum for this payout would be subject to recovery.
With the exception of tuition payments, all GOK subsidies will be deposited in the Operational Account, and the funds in the Tuition Account may only be used to pay for educational supplies.
According to a portion of the circular, “Each Account must have a separate cash book and Schools must post on their notice boards the amounts received.”
According to the PS, a few schools were left out of the distribution because they had contradictory features, but it was guaranteed that they would get the money after the details were worked out.
Copies of the circular were distributed to the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Education, Secretary/CEO of the Teachers Service Commission, Director of School Audit Services, and all Regional Directors of Education.