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Court Stops Community Based-Learning CBL Roll-out

Join Our Telegram Group The Community Based Learning, CBL, an initiative by the Ministry of Education in liaison with the Teachers Service Commission, TSC, has suffered a blow after the High Court stopped it’s rolling out on Tuesday. High Court Judge, Justice James Aaron Makau, directed the Education Cabinet Secretary Professor George Magoha to halt temporarily commencement of […]

Download Community Based Learning CBL Notes, Guides

Join Our Telegram Group Download the following Community Based Learning CBL notes and study resources for primary school and high school learners for free. These CBL Notes will help you in the interpretation and administration of the Current Community-Based Learning. Our Community-based learning, CBL, resources can also be used as a guide throughout the Ministry’s […]

Reopen Universities, Says Student Leaders

Join Our Telegram Group The Universities’ Presidents’ Council of Kenya on August 18, condemned the Education Ministry over the uncertainty surrounding the opening dates of the now still closed learning institutions. The council felt that the way the Ministry of Education has been conducting closed-door meetings on determining the fate of students who have remained […]

Reasons Why WHO Wants Schools Reopened

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), children staying at home to protect them from being infected by COVID – 19 is doing them more harm than good. This is following a statement from WHO and Unicef on Friday. WHO says that the effect of this extraordinarily long holiday is quite significant and it goes […]

Teacher Salaries in Tanzania

Teachers in Tanzania are not well paid as compared to other countries like Kenya. A person working in a teaching or education profession may earn less than an individual owning a boutique or a salon in the same country. An individual working in education/teaching in Tanzania earns around Kshs. 62,980 per month on average. Salaries […]

Ministry Of Education Guidelines on Salaries of Teaching and Non-Teaching Staff Employed On BOM Terms

The Ministry of Education has provided well-established guidelines on terms of teaching and non-teaching staff in secondary schools who are employed on the Board of Management (BOM) Terms. The Board of Management hires both teaching and non-teaching staff. The guidelines provided hear mirror Dr. Kilemi Mwiria’s education task force. Dr. Kilemi Mwiria proposed a number […]

School Uses Chiefs to Take Study Materials to Students

Following the closure of all learning institutions in March due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, children have been stuck at home with no learning going on. A secondary school in Nyeri has now joined hands with chiefs to supply assignments and coursework to students to help them keep learning during the ongoing coronavirus-enforced crisis. It […]

TSC to roll out Community-Based Learning

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has provided guidelines ahead of the commencement of community-based learning. This comes in light of the ongoing situation in the country whereby students have been stuck at home since the closure of schools in March. Schools were closed in March to help curb the spread of COVID-19. Students have been […]

Masinde Muliro University Students Oppose Online Examination Plan

The novel coronavirus led to halting of learning in all learning institutions in March and with the pandemic still with no cure, the future is bleak. Ways of learning at home have been bundled about since then with even the government’s KICD not proving successful. Universities like Nairobi University are continuing with online examinations although […]

Teacher Salaries in Kenya per month

For many years, teachers have protested to better payment from the Kenyan government. The Kenya National Teachers Union (KNUT) fought hard with the government over this and eventually they succeeded in getting teachers a salary increment. The Salaries and Remuneration Commission struck a deal with teachers on increasing their salaries. However, this was to be […]