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Join Our Facebook Page The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has revealed the identities of applicants who are not eligible for recruitment. The Commission has also given the reasons as to why the applicants have been deemed as ineligible. Some Kenyans have been critical of the release as there are some applicants with TSC numbers but […]
What is a SACCO? Join Our Facebook Page The word SACCO is an abbreviation for Savings and Credit Co-operative Society. A SACCO is a member-based financial institution where people stock their savings and offer loans to their own members. A SACCO’s main objective is to alleviate poverty by helping members to learn how to make […]
Join Our Facebook Page TSC has provided the following recruitment guidelines for intern teachers to secondary schools in 2020/2021. GUIDELINES FOR RECRUITMENT OF TEACHER INTERNS FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS – 2020/2021 1.0 GENERAL INFORMATION 1.1 Following the advertisement for recruitment of teacher interns, Boards of Management of schools are required to conduct the selection exercise for […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has instructed heads of schools to abide by the Ministry of Education’s directive on school fees and avoid putting an unnecessary burden on parents by imposing unnecessary levies. TSC CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia has revealed that the Commission will punish heads of schools who are not following guidelines on school […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) suspended the delocalization of teachers due to the rising cases of COVID-19 across the country. While at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD), TSC CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia said that only transfers that natural attrition will necessitate shall be effected. The TSC CEO was attending a stakeholders’ meeting at […]
1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Teachers Service Commission (“the Commission) is established under Article 237 (1) of the Constitution. Article 237 (2) of the Constitution mandates the Commission to: register-trained teachers; recruit and employ registered teachers, and assign teachers under its employment to serve in public schools/institutions. The operations of the Commission are further guided by […]
The Ministry of Education has released a circular to guide the launch of the upgrade course. Unemployed and employed P1 and ECDE teachers in their thousands are set to begin their training for a Diploma course that will enable them to march the changes that the new Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) will bring. “The meeting held […]
The Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof George Magoha has finally revealed that Mama Ngina University is set to officially start operating this September this year despite Kenyans expressing their displeasure at the choice of the name of the campus. In the meantime, the Campus will be part of Kenyatta University for a few years and […]
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 the moment of writing […]
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 Primary School. The boy […]
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 Onyango certified the case […]
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 […]