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THE STANDARD NATIONAL Rosemary Kinuthia, Executive Director of the African Boy Child Network has told The Standard that there is an urgent need to highlight the needs of the male gender. [File, Standard] Organisations in support of the boy child have called on the government to implement existing laws that protect the latter. This comes at a time when Kenya is celebrating the World Day of the Boy Child for the first time since its conception in 2018. Rosemary Kinuthia, Executive Director of the African Boy Child Network which has partnered with other organisations on an event marking the day,...

THE STANDARD EDITORIAL Shoppers flock Kibrose Uniforms Limited, Nairobi to buy uniforms ahead of school reopening. [David Njaaga, Standard] Schools reopen from today for the third term after a long holiday. Third term will be relatively short - two months - running up to July 16, 2021, when schools close again for 10 days. Learning will then resume on July 26, 2021, for the first term of the new academic calendar for 2022. These unfamiliar changes in the school calendar that ordinarily begins in January and ends in December, with breaks in-between, were necessitated by the effects of Covid-19...

THE STANDARD EDITORIAL Pupils at a library at Koyaya village, Kabondo Kasipul in Homabay County. [Denish Ochieng, Standard] Reported fears and concerns among parents and guardians over the potential effects of long holidays on their children are not unfounded. A circular to all regional, county and sub-county directors of education from the Ministry of Education states that Grade Four pupils will remain at home. According to the circular, only Pre-Primary 1 and 2, Grade One to Three, Standard Five to Seven and Form One to Three learners resume classes next week. During the ten-month stay at h...

THE STANDARD EDUCATION Sharon Alaka, a class three pupil at Eshikumu Primary School in Ikolomani plucking ripe fruits at Shirula village in Ikolomani. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard] Unease has emerged over the fate of Grade Four learners even as the government directed that the children remain at home when schools open on Monday. In a circular to all regional, county and sub-county directors of education, the Ministry of Education states that Grade Four children must remain at home. The May 3 circular by Basic Education Principal Secretary Jwan Julius says that only Pre-Primary 1 and 2, Grade On...