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KNEC’s plea to 2020/2021 Exam candidates

Join Our Facebook Page The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has implored the 1.9 Million KCPE and KCSE candidates to avoid cheating in the upcoming national examinations. In a letter that KNEC released, they said that it pains for the agency to cancel results for candidates every year for those who cheat. KNEC sent the […]

Dagoretti High school Candidates Walk out of school

Join Our Facebook Page Learners of Dagoretti High School have walked out of the upmarket Dagoretti High School in Nairobi citing bad management of their school. Mr. Peter Orero, an ODM operative managed the school until he resigned in 2019 to vie for the ODM ticket nomination for Kibra only to end up losing. This […]

Lugulu Girls Staff Suspended Over Inciting Students

Join Our Facebook Page Five staff members of the support staff of Lugulu Girls High School have been suspended for allegedly catalyzing students in staging a protest. The members of staff include the cateress, two cooks, the school nurse, and the storekeeper. In the letter, the five support staff shall be on leave until January […]

TSC Gives Teachers Timely Gifts Ahead of Full Reopening

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has given teachers looking for employment and promotions reasons to celebrate during this festive season. Employment Letters (For Successful Applicants) TSC is in the process of issuing Employment letters to teachers who applied for employment with the commission in October 2020. TSC had advertised for 11,574 available teaching vacancies in […]

President Uhuru Kenyatta: Schools Must Reopen Next Year

President Uhuru Kenyatta has assured Kenyans that learning at all levels shall resume next year (January 2021). The President made the announcement during the Jamhuri Day celebrations at Nyayo National Stadium on the 12th of December 2020.  As His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta led the nation in marking this year’s Jamhuri Day, he implored guardians […]

What Nancy Macharia told teachers on Jamhuri Day

Jamhuri Day celebrations took place at the Nyayo National Stadium yesterday and Dr. Nancy Macharia said the following statement to teachers. On behalf of TSC I wish all the teachers a happy Jamhuri Day 2020. On this occasion, we celebrate the establishment of Kenya as a republic. As we mark this day, let us also […]

TSC Planning To Issue October Recruits with Posting Letters

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is planning to issue posting letters to all October successful applicants. This is in line with the grand plan of our government for the reopening in January 2021. According to our sources, there are indications that TSC is working to ensure teachers are posted early January to schools that have […]

Curriculum Implementation Committee Wants Removal of Grade 6 Assessment

The Cabinet Secretary for Education George Magoha shall give the final directive after receiving recommendations to remove the Kenya Primary Education Certificate (KCPE) exams by the Curriculum Implementation Committee. The committee agreed to scrap off the national examination and replace it with a grade 9 alternative. This was after a retreat they held at Naivasha […]

Government to Provide Facemasks and Meals in Schools

The government plans to provide facemasks, soaps, and sanitizers to students at a cost of Ksh. 2.1 Billion as schools are to reopen in January. The budget details are in the post-recovery plan released by the National Treasury named Post-Covid-19 Economic Recovery Strategy (2020-2022). The document details that between December 2020 and June 2021, an […]

Mass Transfer of school administrators looms – TSC

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is planning to do a reshuffle of school administrators who have stayed in one station for a long time before schools reopen in January 2021. TSC County Directors are under instructions already to come up with a list of school administrators i.e. headteachers and their deputies for proper balancing before […]

Secondary School Teacher Found With Machakos Senator Released

Esther Muli Ntheya, a secondary school teacher found with Machakos Senator Boniface Mutinda Kabaka the day he fell sick has been released. The teacher was released on personal bond following negative poison test results on the Machakos Senator. There were no charges against the tutor but she was instructed to report every 14 days at […]

Kisii University Workers Stage Demos, Threaten to Boycott Work

Kisii University workers, on Wednesday, engaged the police in running battles after they staged demonstrations within the university premises. The angry university staff used the protest to complain on the delayed salaries. “We are demonstrating because we have not been paid. We work too long without pay”, said one of the demonstratin workers. University administration […]