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Join Our Telegram Group The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary-General Collins Oyuu has changed tune and asked for a review on the salary deal that the teachers’ unions signed with the Teachers Service Commission in 2020 that did not include monetary benefits. Since Collins Oyuu’s election as KNUT’s Secretary-General, the union has mainly […]
Join Our Telegram Group Students of Kebeneti Secondary School in Kericho West were seen mourning the death of their principal who died in a grisly road accident on Thursday evening. The learners had been assembled and after they were given the sad news all of them seemed to lose their energy and began mourning their […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) candidates have everybody’s full attention as we begin the crucial third term following yesterday’s reopening of schools. The third term will last for only nine weeks ending on the 4th of March effectively making it the shortest […]
IThe government has warned of an impending reduction in university funding with Yatani urging innovation on the part of universities This was revealed by Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani who stated that the government will not keep funding universities to the levels that they desire. During an interview with the Star, CS Yatani said that universities […]
According to data revealed by Minet Kenya, three teachers die every day leading to a total of 1095 deaths per year. For the last half-decade, the year 2020/2021 had the highest number of teachers dying (1430) teachers dying while the year 2015/16 had the fewest with a total of 880 deaths among teachers. Going by […]
More than sixty thousand (60,000) secondary schools teachers are set to undergo training on how to teach in junior secondary schools. The training is set to take place in March and April this year. At the moment of writing this article, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has trained 120,000 primary school teachers on how to […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has reiterated that it will not lower the qualification grades for candidates who want to join teaching courses for both primary and secondary schools. The Commission revealed that candidates who will not have achieved a mean grade of C+ in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination will not […]
Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof George Magoha has urged schools to vaccinate students under the age of 15 in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus. According to CS Magoha, the National Government through the Ministry of Health has approved the vaccination of learners under the age of 15 whom he said make up […]
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has issued a warning to the government regarding the closure of schools over the omicron variant that is quickly spreading across the country. At the moment schools have been closed or will be closed this coming week latest by 23 December just in time for the Christmas celebrations. UNICEF […]
The Labor Law Court has stopped the implementation of the Teacher Professional Development (TPD) that was set to commence this month. In the Friday ruling Friday, the judges said that the programme intended is not valid because there is no TSC regulation on TPD. “The teacher professional development will not be implemented because they fall […]
Following a string of schools fires and school walkouts by students from various schools across the country, the government has taken the initiative to release guidelines on managing discipline in schools. Below is the circular containing guidelines on managing discipline in schools. Ref No: MOEHQS/3/13/3 Date: 2nd December 2021 To: Regional Directors of Education County […]
A proposed bill is set to give Education Cabinet Secretary Prof George Magoha the powers to appoint Vice-Chancellors, Deputy Vice-Chancellors and Principals and Deputy Principals of Constituent Colleges of Public Universities following competitive recruitment. In a bid to bring about transparency and accountability in the process of appointing the above-mentioned positions, a bill on the […]