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Join Our Facebook Page 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 […]
Join Our Facebook Page 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 […]
Join Our Facebook Page The Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) has announced the deadline for subsequent applications on the 31st of October 2021. This means that all subsequent applicants should ensure they have applied for their HELB loans by the end of this month. Announcing the directive on their Twitter page, HELB posted: Comrades, Kumbukeni […]
Teachers are imploring the government to bail out Spire Bank amid the bank’s financial struggles with more than Sh. 2.6 billion of teachers’ savings at stake. The Spire Bank was formerly known as Equatorial Commercial Bank (ECB) before the change of name. Mwalimu Sacco, the largest Sacco in Kenya by assets, bought the Spire bank […]
A 14-year-old class six pupil allegedly killed his schoolmate over Ugali and Kunde. Following the killing, the class six learner is said to have dumped the body at River Simakina in Navakholo which is located in Kakamega County. According to Navakholo OCPD Richard Omanga, the now-deceased 10-year-old pupil had been looking after their family’s cattle […]
Following Tabichi’s win, many Kenyan teachers are excited to know who has come out on top in the Globe Teacher Prize. According to Globe Teacher Prize, their teachers come from all parts of the world including remote villages and towns and even schools in cities. The prize advocates for inclusivity and covers many aspects in […]
Uganda’s President Kaguta Yoweri Museveni has directed that there will be no salary increment for teachers who teach humanities. The Uganda President’s announcement has directly affected a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) of 2018 in which the government of Uganda was to provide uniform salary increments for all teachers. President Museveni announced this while delivering his […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has released more letters of deployment to practising P1 teachers to teach at the secondary level. The letters were released this month (October) for PTE teachers who held a Bachelor’s of Education degree (secondary option) and they will now begin teaching their subject areas in secondary schools. Following a long […]
Five Kenyan universities from Kenyan have agreed to collaborate with German universities in an attempt to rid graduates of unemployment. The tertiary institutions have decided on funding young promising innovators to help them reach their true potential. The institutions have already begun a campaign to create awareness among students to shift their minds from dreaming […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has insisted that more than 300,000 who are unemployed have to attend the ongoing upgrading programme in order to be compliant with the new Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). The message was hammered home with the Commission declaring that TSC will not automatically take them in even if they complete the upgrading […]
The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has voiced its support for the progressive phasing out of boarding schools so as to reduce the strenuous workload on teachers. KUPPET Secretary-General Akello Misori said that tutors in boarding schools work for a longer time but are not paid for the same. Teachers on duty […]
Following the reopening of schools, Alliance Girls High School student Serena Nyokabi committed suicide. The young girl had been reportedly undergoing treatment over her mental struggles and had been seeing a Psychiatrist over the same since the year 2019. The psychiatrist had been dealing with her anxiety disorder. A Facebook account with the name Peter […]