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Join Our Telegram Group The Ministry of Education has put teachers back to work, asking them to collect data on girls who have become pregnant during this Covid-19 pandemic. This call of duty has stirred confusion and it’s not clear how they will do it. Schools remain closed due to the pandemic. The circular issued […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) has requested the teachers employer to include over 103,000 school heads, their deputies and senior teachers in this month’s pay rise as it implements phase four of the 2017-2021 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). The 103,000 teachers were left out last year by the Teacher’s […]
Join Our Telegram Group In April this year, Peter Kiirya, a fine art teacher at St. Mary’s College, Jinja in Uganda committed suicide, a tragic event that sent shock waves in the spines of different teachers. It was highly speculated all over Facebook and WhatsApp teachers’ groups that it was due to the lockdown-induced effects, […]
NAIROBI, PRESS RELEASE Tuesday, July 07, 2020 REOPENING OF LEARNING INSTIUTIONS IN KENYA On Monday July 6th 2020, His Excellency the President Uhuru Kenyatta directed the Ministry of Education to jointly, with all the stakeholders in the sector, notify the public on the resumption of learning for Basic Education and Tertiary Institutions by today. Following […]
There is a higher probability that Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) institutions will reopen in shifts, as opposed to primary and secondary schools. This revelation was brought forth by Education Cabinet Secretary, George Magoha who pointed at infrastructural challenges and congestion being a huge obstacle in the opening of primary and secondary schools. Speaking […]
Home schooling was one of the most welcomed ideas when parents had their children sent back home from school, many of them being candidates. Thanks to the mass media and available websites for online courses, students that have had access to these have gained out of them. But here’s the thing; parents and children don’t […]
Ever since the Covid–19 pandemic aggrandized itself, the world governments took measures that could save lives by allowing a few set backs in many industries. Among the most affected were the teachers, and since this kind of global system is unpredictable, teachers have to find a way to survive. Survival is possible if one possesses […]
I bet you’ve come across some predictive memes that children in the future shall only get to find hard copies of books in museums, and they’ll be amazed when they learn that we used to simply flip the pages, not scroll. Besides the numerous advantages of mobile gadgets in studying, there are a few challenges […]
Egerton University on Wednesday the 13th of May 2020, issued a noticed to it’s staff members on salary detraction following the extended impact of COVID-19 Pandemic. Through the notice, the University sited that it’s not in a position to generate enough funds internally to cater for April 2020 salaries. This is due to the negative […]
During this lockdown, children have access to television and a few newspapers with educational content. However, this doesn’t seem to be enough, as the majority of students below university are not accustomed to studying new topics by themselves. Here is where their parents have to come in as substitute teachers, and these are the ways […]