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Join Our Facebook Page The Ministry of Education has announced that they have now released Sh. 9.3 billion to primary and secondary schools across the country. Secondary schools or rather high schools have received Sh. 6.5 billion while primary schools have received Sh. 2.8 billion. Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof George Magoha revealed yesterday that […]
Join Our Facebook Page The following is the Teachers Service Commission’s 5-day zonal CBC Training Schedule for Teachers for the month of May 2021. ZONAL TEACHERS TRAINING PROGRAMME DAY 1: 31ST MAY 2021 TIME ACTIVITY FACILITATOR 8:00 – 8:15 am Arrival and registration 8:15 – 9:30 am Preliminaries, Prayers, introduction of Ground rules, opening remarks […]
Join Our Facebook Page 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 […]
University students around the country with ambitions of becoming teachers are in shock following the Teachers Service Commission’s (TSC) decision to remove the Bachelor of Education program in universities beginning this September. The move is part of the Commission’s broad plan to reform the education sector focusing on the training of teachers in colleges and […]
Samuel Gitau, a Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) soldier based in the dreaded Boni Forest in Lamu County has offered to teach students at Kiangwe Primary School. The soldier said that he decided to teach himself after teachers fled the school over security fears leaving only one teacher with a thankless task. “I met the teacher, […]
Following a fire incident at Mukaa Boys High School in Makueni County, five of the 12 students who were accused of setting a school dormitory on fire have pleaded not guilty. The minors were arraigned in court before Principal Magistrate Charles Mayamba on the 25th of May 2021 and they faced charges related to the […]
Mutahi Ngunyi, a famous political analyst, has pledged to help two brilliant students who invented a bio-robotic prosthetic arm. This was communicated via his Twitter page on the 25th of May 2021 where the political analyst promised to make funds available for the brilliant duo to continue with their studies without interruption. Mutahi Ngunyi was […]
Two school-going girls have been rescued from a man who had been allegedly defiling them for almost a month in Migori County. Security personnel rescued the students who are of age 15 on Saturday from a house in Kadongo trading center in Kowidi Sub-Location in Rachuonyo East Sub-County. The two underage girls who come from […]
Police from Kilimani areas are currently investigating three people over an incident that led to the death of a 15-year-old school-going student. The girl who died was attending Kiteta Girls Secondary School in Mbooni is suspected to have died following a beating from family members. The suspects under investigation are the child’s mother, father, and […]
Government officials from the Ministry of Education have begun hunting for learning institutions that do not have basic infrastructure. Deputy County Commissioner Michael Lesimam, who led the exercise, said that the schools that were closed either operated without any government registration or that the school’s buildings were not constructed according to the required standards. “In […]
A study has revealed that the personality of students does impact the way teachers mark and award results of the examination to them. Universities from England, Russia in Italy which carried out the study or rather the research, investigated the performance of students in arts, sports, science, and literature in Russia. On Thursday, the 20th […]
Police have nabbed a school bus conductor in Mombasa for allegedly defiling a five-year-old pupil on her way home. It is alleged that the conductor defiled the pupil on the 18th of May before dropping her off at her home that is located in the village of Kiembeni. The parents of the pupil claim that […]