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Universities Defy TSC’s Plan to Do Away with Bachelor of Education Course This September

Join Our Telegram Group Universities will still be offering Bachelor of Education degree this September despite TSC’s proposal to scrap off the program. Universities still declared the course available for application to the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS). Seemingly universities will still allow applications to Bachelor of Education, or Bachelor of Education, […]

TSC to Address CBA 2021-2025 Issue in Shortest Time Possible

Join Our Telegram Group TSC to Address CBA 2021-2025 Issue in Shortest Time Possible The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has now issued an answer to concerns over the pending Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that was planned to be signed before July 2021. The Commission responded after the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) […]

KNEC’S Guidelines on Payment of KCSE 2020 Invigilators

Join Our Telegram Group The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has issued guidelines concerning the payment of contractors’ dues. KNEC has instructed the unpaid contractors to click on the link https://bit.ly/3ibv5AB and provide all the needed information. Some of the details that teachers are required to enter in the provided Google form are as follows. […]

Former School Principal Gets 30 Years in Prison after Killing Husband

Ms. Jane Muthoni, a former school principal of Icaciri Secondary School in Kiambu, has been sentenced to spend 30 years in prison for murdering her husband in 2016. Ms. Jane Muthoni has been at Lang’ata Women’s Prison since 2016. Muthoni was facing accusations of hiring killers to murder her husband. Last year in the month […]

TSC Circular on Remote Learning Methodology Training of Teachers

  The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) have released a circular on Remote Learning Methodology. Below is the full circular. TO ALL SUB COUNTY DIRECTORS – KWALE ALL CURRICULUM SUPPORT OFFICERS – KWALE RE: REMOTE LEARNING METHODOLOGY The Commission completed training of Master Trainers and Curriculum Support Officers on Remote Learning Methodologies. Three (3) teachers from […]

KNEC Issues Strict KCPE and KCSE 2021 Registration Rules To Heads of Schools

The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has issued guidelines ahead of the 2021 KCSE and KCPE registration. Below is the full circular issued to schools to guide schools in registration of candidates. KNEC/GEN/CS/PRO/CIR/NOV/2021/02/REV 7.1                                              18TH MAY 2021 TO: All Heads of Primary and Secondary schools presenting Cndidates for the 2021 KCPE and KCSE examinations All […]

Magoha: Removal of Bachelor of Education the Best Idea

Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof George Magoha has expressed his support for the move to do away with the Bachelor of Education (B. Ed.) degree program that would qualify to teach in Secondary schools. Speaking to journalists after overseeing the unveiling of a three-classroom block at Sagam Secondary school located in Siaya, Prof Magoha said […]

TSC Officials: Teachers Allowed To Attend CBC Training on Madaraka Day

Teachers are set to attend the second day of their Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) training on Tuesday the 1st of June 2021. A top TSC official has revealed that this will happen even though the day is a public holiday. The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is the organizer of the program that commenced today across the […]

It is a One–Year Mandatory Post-Graduate Diploma to Become a Teacher

All secondary school teachers will have to undergo a one-year mandatory post-graduate diploma in teaching before getting licensed to teach. According to the new proposals that the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) have outlined, all university graduates aspiring to be teachers will have to undergo a post-graduate diploma in education. Widespread reports indicate that the Commission […]