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Join Our Telegram Group Several schools in Bungoma have threatened to reject learners who are under county scholarships due to unpaid fees. While learners have been enjoying their half-term break the Bungoma County Government has been blamed for not submitting school fees for their scholarship program that covers around 7,000 Form one students. Rose Situma […]
Join Our Telegram Group An official working with the Ministry of Education is alleged to have diverted around Kshs. 11.1 million intended for the free education to his own personal account. Following an anti-graft agency inquiry, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) is now looking into the issue after there were reports of misappropriation of […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Principal Secretary of State Department for University Education and Research, Ambassador Simon Nabukwesi has called on Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) beneficiaries to pay up outstanding balances to help in making funds available for the growing cases of needy students. According to Nabukwesi, defaulters owe HELB billions which he claimed […]
In a bid to create awareness of mental health issues, the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) in Nakuru trained around 400 teachers on mental health, urging them to be champions in their respective institutions. The teachers came from secondary schools located in Nakuru County in addition to a few primary schools that have […]
The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has provided a Short Message Service (SMS) number which will help parents when confirming the registration of their children for the upcoming 2022 national examinations for both secondary and primary schools. The Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) will be done by class eight (8) learners while the Kenya […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) seems to have reviewed rules that apply to teachers’ transfers with the current ongoing transfer exercise intended to ensure the balancing of teaching staff in schools across the country. In a Circular dated the 4th of April, 2022 the Commission is now set to allow teachers who have served for […]
Two separate road accidents in Matungulu, Machakos County have claimed the life of one student and seriously injured four others on Thursday while travelling home for the Midterm Break. Matungulu Sub-County police commander Monica Kimani revealed that the first accident occurred in Nguluni along the Nairobi-Kangundo Road while the second occurred in Masokani along Koma-Kenol […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) want school heads to explain why their schools have performed so poorly for the last three years. “You are required to show cause why disciplinary action should not be taken against you for poor performance in the last three years,” read one of the letters sent to a school in […]
Kenyans Students could soon be allowed to study in any country within the Inter-Governmental Authority Development (IGAD) if the current ongoing proposal to harmonize regional qualifications will go through. IGAD’s member states include Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Djibouti, Uganda, Eritrea and South Sudan. While attending the second regional consultative meeting on the proposed IGAD Regional […]
A teacher from St. Patricks Kisukioni Boys Secondary School located in Matungulu Sub-County within Machakos County has been arrested after assaulting a student’s up to the point of breaking the learner’s arm. Mercy Muli’s the mother to the student revealed that the teacher called Rogers Jakaiti was assaulted while in the school storeroom. Mercy also […]
Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) has announced the offering of scholarships to students who are good in various sports. The institution has announced partial tuition scholarships which will be offered to benefit students who will qualify for the scholarships while they continue with their studies. The full advert detailing the specified requirements […]
Support staff members at St Mary’s School for the Deaf located in the Nyangoma area in Bondo Sub-County have downed their tools over unpaid salaries with arrears dating back to March of 2021 rising up to Kshs. 3.4 Million. The employees demonstrated over the unpaid salaries and paralyzed learning at the institution saying that they […]