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Join Our Facebook Page Following the release of term dates for the year 2021, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC has given specific timelines n when teachers shall perform various activities on TPAD. These activities shall be done at the institution level. TPAD Calendar of Activities at the Institution Level S/NO TPAD Activity Action By Time […]
Join Our Facebook Page The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has revealed the required documents for your pension to be processed without any hitches once you have retired. As per the guidelines provided by TSC, teachers who have reached the age of 60 years, exit service under compulsory retirement. TSC notifies the individual given two years […]
Join Our Facebook Page Education Cabinet Secretary Prof George Magoha yesterday warned administrators of secondary schools against not following the government’s fee guidelines. The Cabinet Secretary pointed out that some head-teachers had raised fees at the expense of parents, a majority who have been hugely hit by the impact of COVID-19. “There are head-teachers who […]
Two students lost their lives in circumstances that were not clear and families blame their schools. The first incident was the one reported at the City Mission Secondary School in Nakuru East. It involved a 17-year-old Form 1 student who died on Thursday morning while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Nakuru. The hospital admitted […]
The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) is a state corporation established under the Universities Act, 2012, to coordinate the placement of Government-sponsored students to universities and colleges, among other functions. The Placement Service is pleased to announce that the online application portal is now open to all secondary school principals to upload […]
This time in Nyamira County, another student has been arrested after attempting to ‘slash’ his deputy on Wednesday morning. The incident happened at Mokwerero Secondary School in Kitutu Masaba Constituency. The student was seized while in the school and was in possession of a machete and a sharpening file. Other teachers rescued their deputy principal […]
Matutu Police Station police arrested fifteen students yesterday from Mwongori Secondary School in Borabu Sub-County. The group comprised of 11 boys and 4 girls who had sneaked from school. The students were arrested in Kijauri town after they sneaked from school. The students had entered a rental house belonging to one Joshua Okioga, 24, in […]
This is a notice to schools from the TSC County Director of Muranga The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has developed a new Teacher Performance Appraisal and Development (TPAD). The new TPAD System shall be open for filling for grades 4, class 8, and form 4 teachers. Term 2 for all teachers of grades 2, 2, […]
The TVET Authority Kenya Page has posted an announcement on their page warning trainees recruited by the Public Service Commission without pedagogy training to TVET institutions across the country to get trained within two years at the Kenya Trainers College (KTTC) as from February (next month). The post is as follows: “Over 3000 trainers recruited […]
Fafi MP Abdikarim Osman has implored people in the local area who have left school to join the teaching profession as one way of ending the sharp teacher shortage in the county. Abdikarim, speaking over the weekend said that as leaders, they are ready to pay for any student who is willing to join the […]
A form 3 student at Kisii High School stabbed two teachers (today) Tuesday morning. Mr. Edwin Mokaya a teacher at Kisii High School had sought to understand why the student had come late to class. Mr. Mokaya took him to the staffroom and asked the form 3 boy to kneel. While in the staffroom, the […]
The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has released an important circular on the handling of candidates of the 2020 KCPE and KCSE candidates’ examinations. This comes after several media outlets have revealed that some KCPE and KCSE schools shut down due to the economic recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. KNEC reveals that affected candidates […]