Browsing category
Source of Latest Education News from Kenya covering Pre-Primary schools, Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Institutions.
Join Our Telegram Group Kodido Primary School located in Dhiwa Constituency, Homa Bay County is on the verge of being closed after a sharp shortage of learning facilities led to a mass exodus of learners. The poor state of the infrastructure in the school led to many parents transferring their children to other schools. At […]
Join Our Telegram Group John Felix Osuro who sat for his Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination in March 2021 fears he could miss out on admission to secondary school because of a lack of school fees. The teenager scored 373 marks in the KCPE examinations and was also the top student at Pundo […]
Join Our Telegram Group The University of Nairobi (UoN) has suffered a huge blow after the High Court of Kenya stopped the institution from effecting major changes that Vice-Chancellor Stephen Kiama had announced. Today the 22nd of July 2021, Justice Maureen Onyango granted conservatory orders after the Universities’ Academic Staff (UASU) filed a lawsuit. Justice […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) set the Teachers Performance Appraisal and Development (TPAD) deadline on the 23rd of July 2021, a week after schools closed for the ongoing one-week holiday. According to a trusted source, there are still some teachers who do not complete filling TPAD and have never seen punishment imposed on them. TSC […]
According to the Government’s released list of full scholarship beneficiaries, 45,000 candidates who sat for the 2020 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination have missed out on the full scholarships. The scholarship targets learners from vulnerable and poor backgrounds which can hinder their academic achievements. 9,000 learners from 110 sub-counties and 15 urban centers […]
As stipulated in the Labour Relations Act 14 of 2007, TSC is mandated to deduct and pay a trade union agency fees from salaries of every “unionsable” employee who is not a member of the union, but who has benefitted from a Collective Agreement negotiated and concluded between TSC and the Commission. There is seemingly […]
The Cabinet Secretary for Education has refuted a proposal of closing 4,000 boarding schools immediately. He insisted that every case will be handled based on its merit. “Although there is a thinking in that direction, we do not have any plan to abolish the 4,000 boarding schools. It will be gradual. We may have start-ups […]
The Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof George Magoha has revealed that the government has released capitation to both primary and secondary schools with schools set to reopen for the first term. The CS was in Mombasa where he supervised the start of the Ministry of Education’s (MoE) 6-day training on transformational leadership for implementing changes […]
Below is the reviewed order of events in the Teachers Service Commission’s recruitment drive this July. S/NO Activity Timelines DURATION 1. Advertise Vacant Posts TUESDAY 29TH June 2021 2. Virtual Sensitization Of Regional Directors Friday 2nd July 2021 1 DAY 3. Online Applications Tuesday 29th June 2021 – Monday 12th July 2021 14 DAYS […]
In accordance with the Labor Relations Act, 14 of 2007, a trade union that has signed a recognition agreement with the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) shall have its dues deducted from the salaries of its members who have joined voluntarily, signed and then submitted a prescribed membership form and authorized the Commission to deduct union […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has released lists of shortlisted unemployed but trained teachers who are hoping to secure employment in just 9,000 posts that the Commission advertised. At the moment of writing this article, the number of trained but unemployed teachers is almost the same as the number currently on the payroll of the […]
The Ministry of Education has now released the list of schools that they have identified for the implementation of foreign and indigenous languages. The government is planning to kick start the piloting of the implementation of indigenous and foreign languages come the first term of the 2021 academic year when schools reopen later this month. […]