Nairobi, May 9 -- Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu has announced that the government is planning to extend Term Two school dates to make up for time lost as a result of a two-week delay in the opening of learning institutions due to floods.

During a briefing on Thursday, the Education CS announced that the second term would be extended for an unspecified period to allow schools to adequately cover the syllabus, especially for candidates preparing for the national examinations scheduled for November this year.

"Particularly for Form Four candidates, we will see how we can recover time lost by extending [the second term by] a few days. They were expected to close for three weeks in August and we might minimise the number of day...