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Fred ArapToo

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Teachers to Undergo Online Training Program from June 22, 2020

Join Our Telegram Group It has been months since the COVID outbreak. Given the prevailing conditions, a lot of time has gone to waste. For the education sector, currently, the amount of time lost is equivalent to a third of the schools’ calendar. Policymakers are recommending that schools re-open soon with debate raging on whether […]

Here’s How to Make Your School Thrive After The Covid-19 Lockdown

Join Our Telegram Group After the Covid-19 lockdown is lifted, it will be business as unusual for the school administration and the teachers that have been impounded ever since the Covid–19 contagion became a global issue. Many things are anticipated, and many school administrators might even take loans so they van have enough to run […]

KUCCPS Places 122,831 Students On Government-Sponsored Degree

Join Our Telegram Group KUCCPS will place 122,831 students on government-sponsored degree courses out of the 125,463 students who sat for last year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination. While launching the academic calendar for students on Tuesday Education CS Prof George Magoha said that another 88,724 will join Technical and Vocational Education and […]

Energy Changes In Physical And Chemical Processes

Energy is the ability to do work. There are many forms of energy such as chemical, electrical, heat, kinetic and potential energy. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed but can only be converted from one form to another. Endothermic and Exothermic reactions When ammonium nitrate is dissolved in water, the temperature of the resulting […]

Status of Education in Africa

SOUTH AFRICA: Teachers’ union urges staff to defy order to return to work Governing associations and the teachers’ unions of South Africa have urged their staff on Friday not to follow the government’s order to return to work. Teachers were told to return to work next week but the unions do not agree as they […]

Dear Teacher, This Is Why You Are Broke

Globally, the main challenge that teachers still deal with and complain of is low pay. Despite their strikes, activism, and advocation, this doesn’t seem to change, except those that are part of different private schools that pay quite differently. When the question comes up on why teachers are broke, it is usually blamed on the […]

KNUT and UASU Propose Continued Stay at Home due to COVID-19

A group of unions for secondary, primary, and university teaching staff have come up with a proposal for students to continue staying at home until as far as November 2021. This group comprises of the University Academic Staff Union (UASU) and Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT). They are both recommending for a little patience […]

Minimum TSC Academic and Professional Requirements for Registration

The following are the minimum academic and professional requirements for registration by the Teachers Service Commission, TSC, for ECDE, Diploma, PTE, and Degree holders. 1. ECDE Teachers Academic Requirements for TSC Registration For Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) TSC teacher registration, one must meet the following requirements. ECDE Certificate For Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) […]

Detailed 2020/2021 HELB Loan Applications Procedure

Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) has announced the opening of their portal for applications for second and subsequent Undergraduate Loans for the year 2020/2021 financial year. This announcement from HELB applies to students sponsored by the government or self-sponsored admitted to both private and public universities. The scope of the allowable students applies to Kenyan […]

Opinion: Can’t Education Wait For Schools to Reopen?

In December 2019, the Coronavirus was thought of as a Chinese epidemic that seemed far away from the world. Right now, there’s barely any country that hasn’t been hit by the virus. A lock-down was thereby implemented, schools, churches, bars, hotels and public transport, among others had to temporarily shut down. That’s still the situation […]

TSC Teachers to Get Pay Rise, Promotion in July 2020

TSC Teachers will get a pay rise and job group promotions coming this July 2020 after Parliament gave a green light for additional Sh11 billion budgetary allocations to Teachers Service Commission. The legislators approved the additional amount to facilitate TSC fulfill phase four of the 2017-2021 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). In the Teachers Service Commission’s […]