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Join Our Facebook Page His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta has said that bringing Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) to an end is the way to go to empower the Girl-child in Kenya so that they can be involved in national development. “If we want to achieve our national goals, we have to change and offer our […]
Join Our Facebook Page Education Cabinet Secretary Prof George Magoha has dismissed the narrative of failure that learners lost nine months of school time. The CS told learners to be brave and said that the narrative of failure based on an earlier test is not meaningful. The KCPE examination begins on March 19 while KCSE […]
Join Our Facebook Page HELB disburses Ksh. 15 Billion to more than 200,000 HELB beneficiaries every year. A fraction of the loan is directly sent to the learning institution to settle part of the tuition and accommodation fees. The rest is then sent to the learner for upkeep. Now students in tertiary institutions will have […]
The Auditor-General has blamed the Ministry of Education for flouting procedures of procurement in the disbursement of millions of shillings to schools and colleges for the projects of renovation and infrastructure development. In a report presented in the National Assembly, Auditor-General Nancy Gathungu raised questions on millions for the financial year 2018/19 were spent to […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has declared the cancellation of all annual leave and field activities for all its staff in preparation for the national examinations. The examinations shall commence on March 222. TSC Secretary Nancy Macharia yesterday directed all field officers to offer undivided attention to the process of examination. “The Commission has canceled […]
Cabinet Secretary for Education George Magoha has launched the 2020 national examinations. The CS also officiated the issuing of security padlocks for the 479 containers ahead of this year’s KCPE and KCSE examinations. Deputy County Commissioners and the Sub-County Directors received the padlocks during the ceremony yesterday. “As part of the Multisectoral Approach to the […]
Education Cabinet Secretary Prof George Magoha has issued a warning to the school head of 30,000 primary schools against unnecessarily pressurizing Grade Four Pupils when the school-based assessment begins on Monday of the coming week. The CS said that the tests are not examinations while also advising parents not to panic unnecessarily. “No one should […]
According to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), 26,629 more teachers have been contracted to administer, manage and mark national examinations due to the increased number of candidates. 227, 629 teachers will oversee the upcoming national examinations of the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and the Kenya Certificate Secondary Education (KCSE). The examinations are scheduled […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) released a total of 726 deployment letters to counties as of Monday 1st March 2021. More P1 graduate teachers who had been in job grade B5 and now in C1 will be posted to teach in secondary schools. The teachers shall earn a salary ranging from 27,195 to 34,900 every […]
A teacher from Karoti Grils High School allegedly attacked his colleague with a Panga in the staffroom. The Police have since arrested the teacher and investigations are ongoing. Mwea East police commander Daniel Katavi said that the suspect is in police custody at Wang’uru Police Station. “We have also recovered the weapon he is said […]
Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) is set to replace literature books for both English and Kiswahili in schools and Teacher Training Colleges. KICD has then moved to ask publishers to provide print literary texts in English and Kiswahili for evaluation this month. The books will replace the ones currently being used in schools that […]
The 1,550 advertised vacancies present a chance for registered but unemployed teachers who exited service through natural attrition (1,119 posts for primary schools ad 431 posts for secondary schools). The Teachers Service Commission has since released a marking scheme to be used during the recruitment. TSC 2021 RECRUITMENT MARKING SCHEME SECONDARY SCHOOLS SCORE SHEET Awarding […]