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Join Our Telegram Group A primary school learner from St. Augustine Mukumu Boys Primary School located in Kakamega County is nursing serious injuries after teachers assaulted him that made him almost not able to walk. Four teachers beat the 14-year-old pupil to an extent that they inflicted injuries to his private parts after being caught […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has announced the availability of sponsorships. The sponsorships are slated for the ongoing September and January intakes and are available at the International Teachers Training College. Below are the details for each sponsorship. Sponsorship Number of Available Vacancies Requirements Diploma in Primary Teacher Education (DPTE) […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Ministry of Education (MoE) and the United Nation’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have launched a three-year programme to ensure 250,000 children return to schools in the country. The initiative was started in January 2021 and its purpose is to get children aged between six and thirteen in informal settlements in Nairobi, […]
During the Mashujaa day celebrations held in Kirinyaga, His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta announced that his administration has allocated Sh 8 Billion to construct over ten thousand junior secondary school classes. In the new Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC), the junior secondary will comprise Grades 7, 8 and 9. CBC’s pioneer learners will move to junior secondary […]
The Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof George Magoha directed all primary and secondary schools to begin the process of replacing Boards of Management (BOM) Members and forward new nominees immediately. In a letter dated the 4th of October, 2021, CS Magoha reminded schools that the current County Education Boards (CEBs) and schools Board of Management […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has directed teachers to update their online profiles by the 30th of November, 2021. In TSC Circular, the TSC Director for Quality Assurance and Standards Dr Mugwuku Nthamburi directed all Regional and County Directors. The online platform is open and will still be open till the 30th of November, as […]
The Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) has acted upon its directive of removing schools that have fewer than 40 registered candidates from the list of examination centres. This has surprised many Kenyans since the council recently announced a significantly increased number of registered Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education […]
The Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) has released the first batch of students who will receive their HELB loans next week. The Board released the first batch of first years in universities and colleges which contained 37,731 names who in total will receive 99.9 Billion Kenyan Shillings for the 2021/2022 academic year. The director of […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is set to give thousands of teachers Certificates of Registration with the Biometric Enrolment and Validation Exercise (BEVOT) exercise set to be done in the near future. A Certificate of Registration is an important tool in the BEVOT exercise as it acts as proof of teacher registration. The Certificate will […]
The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has announced measures that are to be followed to ensure the upcoming national examinations are conducted according to the Ministry of Education calendar. KNEC’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) David Njeng’ere has revealed that the council has started training teachers on how to mark the national examinations. For marking of […]
Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof George Magoha addressed a statement that his Principal Secretary, Simon Nakubwesi made before a Parliamentary Committee where he told the committee that he does not support the plan of placing students in private universities. “I am believing that my PS was misquoted on this. Maybe he was speaking for himself […]
Some principals have been accused of discriminatory conduct during the recruitment of Teachers Service Commission (TSC) interns. In the internship programme, the Commission was seeking to hire 1,995 intern teachers to be deployed to schools across the country. However, fairness and transparency have obviously not been the main theme with some principals allegedly ignoring merit […]