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Schools & Education
Fees reconciliation, term-cycle procurement, boarding stores, and asset registers for Kenyan schools.
10 articles in schools and education.
Schools & Education 14 min
The Chemistry Store: Expiry, Quarantine & What a School Must Not Issue
A hold here is a rule rather than a note — held stock genuinely cannot be issued. What that gives a school laboratory, what an inspection can be shown from records, and the one gap that depends entirely on whether somebody reads their email.
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Schools & Education 14 min
The School Shop and the Account That Isn't There
The counter cannot sell on credit, by design, and there is no fee account to charge. Two shapes a school shop can take, why the credit limit is the control that matters in week one, and the small thing that decides your whole term's collections.
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Schools & Education 15 min
Three Kinds of Staff, One Payroll Run
A school pays some staff, records others it does not pay, and hires more each term. There is exactly one run per month with no pay groups, and no exclude-from-payroll flag — so keeping government-paid teachers quiet is a decision you make once, deliberately.
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Schools & Education 13 min
Four Thousand Textbooks: Lending Things to People Who Are Not in the System
Books go out in January to learners who exist in no database you own, and some come back in November. Which custody mechanism to bend, how far it bends, and the annual habit that stops the register quietly becoming a work of fiction.
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Schools & Education 11 min
School Transport: Buses, Fuel & the Service History Nobody Has
Buses are the most expensive assets most schools own and the least documented. Why the odometer reading at the pump is the whole fuel control, what a trip log should leave behind, and whether the transport fee covers the service.
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Schools & Education 11 min
Budgets & Vote Heads: Keeping a Term Inside Its Plan
A budget approved in January and consulted in November is a forecast that was overtaken. Vote heads as controls with owners, why committed spend is the number that matters, and budgeting by term rather than by thirds.
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Schools & Education 9 min
School ERP in Kenya: A Buyer's Guide for Bursars & Directors (2026)
Schools are three businesses in one uniform — fees, logistics, and assets. What operations software must handle, and where school money actually leaks.
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Schools & Education 8 min
School Procurement in Kenya: Feeding Programs, Boarding Supplies & Term Contracts
Term dates are known years ahead — yet week one is always a buying emergency. The term procurement cycle, the big four contracts, and kitchen arithmetic.
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Schools & Education 8 min
School Fees Reconciliation: M-Pesa, Banks & the Bursar's Ledger
One invoice per student, a unique payment reference, all channels into one ledger — how bursars end the evening matching game and make arrears report themselves.
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Schools & Education 8 min
School Asset Registers: Labs, Buses, Dorms & the Equipment You Keep Rebuying
Schools budget annually for equipment they already own. Custodians by name, term verification rhythms, and maintenance that beats breakdown.
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