A total of 3798 students from Central province in secondary schools and tertiary institutions including TVET will benefit from the 2021 Central Province Governor's School Fee Assistance Program. Central Governor Robert Agarobe announced this week that a funding of K6m will be distributed to schools in the province inclusive of Central students that are attending secondary schools in NCD. He said this program initially started in 2018 with over 10,000 students benefiting from this program so far. A total of 95 institutions will be receiving school fee cheques from the Governor's office as of this week. "In line with the National Government school fee policy on school fee assistance, the secondary schools in the province are also assisted with full parental component of K637.00 per student." "Students attending tertiary, TVET and private institutions will benefit from the Governor's subsidy of K2,000 per student." The governor's office is also considering Central students attending secondary schools in NCD and they have allocated K2,000 per student as part of the parental component. Governor Agarobe further clarified that the school fee assistance for secondary schools are only for grade 11 and grade 12 students. Agarobe said his office is happy to assist parents with school fees during this pandemic