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Join Our Facebook Page Because of the challenges faced in the process of uploading learners’ scores onto LCBE Portal, the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has extended the deadline for uploading marks of learners to November 20, 2020. A fortnight ago, the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) conducted school-based learning assessments on behalf of the […]
Join Our Facebook Page The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has officially extended the deadlines to upload the school-based assessment scores for Grade 4 and Standard 8 to 20th of November 2020. Through a circular (KNEC/CS/GEN/R&QA/2020/015) dated 11th of November 2020, signed by the KNEC CEO, Dr. Mercy Karogo, and addressed to all school head […]
Join Our Facebook Page Education Cabinet Secretary Prof George Magoha today (Wednesday, November 2020) insisted that he will not apologize after a video showed him insulting a junior official. The CS Magoha was implored to apologize by a teachers’ union official from Uasin Gishu County who did rounds online. In the video clip recorded last […]
Peter Tabichi, after winning the 2019 Global Teacher award, he has now won another prize, the 2020 Ahimsa Award given by the Trustees of the Institute of Jainology in London. He was awarded for showing selfless action and compassion. The Ahimsa award is given for the same purpose of promoting compassion and non-violence principles. The […]
West Kenya Sugar company donated a Ksh. 4.5 million building with classrooms they built for a local school. During the handover ceremony at Shambere Primary school, Kabras Sugar brand miller’s managing director Tejveer S. Rai said they had identified the education sector as one of its corporate responsibility investments (CSI) pillars. Because of that, the […]
Uasin Gishu Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) Secretary-General Elija Maiyo has called for the sacking of Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha for publicly remonstrating with an education official. Elija Maiyo called out Prof George Magoha for his remarks towards the county Director of Education Gitonga Mbaka. Call for Magoha to Apologize Speaking […]
In a Teachers Service Commission (TSC) Memo dated 29th of October 2020 to all TSC Regional Directors (RDs) and all TSC County Directors (CDs), TSC planned to train teachers in Competency Based Curriculum during this month of November. TSC will train teachers as from 23rd of November 2020 to 5th of November 2020. TSC will […]
A school in Bomet County where a girl on her periods committed suicide after being mocked in class has received sanitary pads for the last seven months. The Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) Foundation together with Ethical Tea Partnership (ETP) provided the sanitary towels to pupils attending Kabiangek Primary School in Konoin Sub-County. Before this […]
The Ministry of Education has said that the school calendar will undergo reviewing so that learners will not lose the current academic year due to the corona-enforced break. This comes after the government opted against allowing learners in Forms 1, 2, and 3 and those in Grades 1, 2, and 3 and classes 5, 6, […]
Five teachers and sixty-eight students at Bahati Girls Secondary School, in Nakuru County, tested positive for COVID-19. According to Nakuru County Health CEC, Kariuki Gichuki confirmed the news today (Thursday), November 5, 2020. Gichuki said that one student developed complications related to COVID-19 and is undergoing treatment at Nakuru isolation and management center. “One student […]
The Teachers Service Commission TSC has issued all the names of teachers de-registered/ removed from the Kenya Teachers Register in 2020. According to Section 30 (l) (e) of the Teachers Service Commission Act, the commission is thereby notifying the public that the following teachers have been dismissed and removed from the teachers’ register. 2020 TSC […]
President Uhuru today announced that one-on-one classes in basic institutions of education will resume fully next year. The President’s announcement comes at a moment when a number of schools have reported COVID-19 cases. This simply means that for the other learners who were not lucky to return to schools this year, 2020 might be a […]