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Join Our Telegram Group Heads of Institutions are seeking to raise school fees by Sh. 16,000, an attempt that could irk parents due to the congested academic calendar that is going to force parents to pay school fees four times in 2022. 2022 is going to have four terms compressed in a single year due […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has expressed worry that the government may not have invested enough effort in preparing for the Competency-Based Curriculum’s (CBC) debut at the secondary level. KUPPET has seen a glaring problem of teacher shortage and has recommended the government focus on recruiting more teachers […]
Join Our Telegram Group Secondary school heads have called for the introduction of mandatory drug tests for students in schools ahead of the new academic year. The school heads also want the existing policy to be changed to make all students answerable to cases of destruction to school property during the school unrests that have […]
Teachers who are examiners are contracted under the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) and are also paid by the same body. Collins Oyuu urged KNEC to increase the remunerations that are allocated to centre managers, invigilators supervisors and markers involved in the whole process of conducting and marking the national examinations. There are two national […]
The 2021 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) candidates and parents can now calm their anxiety regarding the release of the KCSE national examinations because the release date has been revealed. 2021 KCSE candidates can expect to have their results by the end of the month. Examiners have completed the marking of subjects done in […]
The Teachers Service Commission is set to train high school teachers on the Competency-Based Assessment (CBA) which is set to make its debut at the secondary school level in the near future. Below is the full TSC Circular on the training of junior secondary school teachers on the CBA. TO: ALL SUB-COUNTY DIRECTORS RE: TRAINING […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has laid off 64 teachers for committing various offences that are against the code of conduct of the teaching profession. The Commission revealed this through a gazette notice dated the 14th of April where the TSC Chief Executive Officer Dr Nancy Macharia said that the said teachers were removed from […]
The Media Council of Kenya (MCK) Rift Valley Coordinator Joseph Karanja has revealed that the Council has launched the training of journalists across the country on reporting on elections which are set to take place on August 9th 2021. Karanja was speaking in Kapenguria where he took the lead role in participating in helping Kenyans […]
The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) together with the Directorate of Technical and Vocational Education Training has been urged to ensure measures are put in place t enhance the placement of trainees with disabilities in all levels of technical institutions. Among these institutions that have been urged to enhance the placement of […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has directed schools to identify teachers who shall be mentors, coaches and champions. According to the Commission, the previous data that schools submitted had errors as it did not contain all the information that was required. “Some schools identified teachers who had less than three (3) years in service to […]
A Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) candidate who scored 415 marks out of 500 in the recently announced 2021 KCPE national examination was not placed in any secondary school. The 24-year-old student revealed that he had previously taken the KCPE examination but was not able to continue to the next level. This forced him […]
The government is set to release funds to schools in the coming days with schools across the country set to open for the first term starting on the 25th of April 2022. This is good news for parents set to enrol their children in secondary schools in form or those continuing their learning in the […]