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Join Our Facebook Page Following the interviews conducted in May 2020 for the vacant posts of Vocational and Technical Trainers in the State Department for Vocational and Technical Training, the following are the selected TVET Trainers to fill the advertised posts, with dates of picking appointment letters, and the official documents to be submitted. Dates […]
Join Our Facebook Page The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has released the timetable for the assessment examination of Grade 4 and Class 8, which learners will do on Monday. Schools will assess Grade four learners for four days, that is, from Monday to Thursday. Class 8 students on the other hand will do their […]
Join Our Facebook Page Kenya is on the verge of having a shortage of medics if medical students from the University of Nairobi do not graduate this year. The medical students are around 600 in number. Lecturers’ conflict with the university over delay in disbursement of their clinical allowances. Both undergraduate and postgraduate medical students […]
After many months of the corona-enforced holiday, students in class 8 and grade 4 are set to sit for an assessment examination in the coming week. The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) released guidelines for the tests that headteachers of primary schools will manage. The other learners in classes that have not reported yet to […]
Education Cabinet Secretary Prof George Magoha has urged parents to pay school fees if they are able. The CS also directed both public and private schools not to send home learners of parents who may not be able to pay the required amount of school fees. CS Magoha said some parents took the directive of […]
On Wednesday 14 October 2020, Musingu Boys High School in Ikolomani, Kakamega County, was on the spot after fire consumed a dormitory. The dormitory by the name Oparanya Hostel, went into flames at around noon. Sources at the school said that the fire begun at around 11 a.m while the students were in class undertaking […]
In this post, we will try to explain why every teacher should at least be part of a SACCO. Sacco’s are Savings and Credit Cooperatives in full, and you can simply understand them as the kind of organizations that encourage savings and provide loans to their members, depending on; Their savings Their amount of shares Duration […]
Complains have emerged concerning the 11,574 vacancies advertised by the Teachers Service Commission. Teachers who applied for the posts are not happy and feel the scoring system used to recruit is hugely faulty as it hands the advantage to some candidates or applicants The vacancies advertised by TSC on the 1st of September 2020, saw […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia on Monday, October 12th, announced the layoff of 30 teachers from service following offences against the TSC code of conduct. Dr. Macharia also announced the registration of 8,500 new teachers to the commission’s register. The 8,500 teachers aren’t a part of the 11,000 job vacancies that […]
Education Cabinet Secretary Prof Magoha has today confirmed the reopening of schools in a press conference the CS held today. The announcement comes despite a pending court ruling on Wednesday that directed CS Magoha to hold consultations with all stakeholders within three days regarding the progressive reopening of schools. High Court Judge James Makau had […]
It is becoming increasingly obvious that schools are still reopening on Monday even though a court order suspended reopening of schools until the Ministry of Education has done consultations with stakeholders. Therefore, the Ministry of Education will proceed with the phased reopening of all institutions of basic education. High Court Judge James Maku issued the […]
RE: CONDUCT OF LEARNING ASSESSMENTS UNDER THE KENYA GPE COVID-19 LEARNING CONTINUITY IN BASIC EDUCATION PROJECT Following the closure of all learning institutions on March 15, 2020, to curb the spread of COVID-19 whose first case the Ministry of Health reported in Kenya on March 3, 2020, the Ministry of Education (MoE) developed the Kenya […]