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Join Our Telegram Group On Tuesday, a day after President Uhuru Kenyatta announced the lifting of the cessation order for Mombasa, Nairobi, and Mandera counties, CS Magoha announced that basic education institutions will resume next year. This comes after parents and other stakeholders expressed concerns concerning the reopening of schools in September. “Stakeholders have ditched […]
Join Our Telegram Group NAIROBI, PRESS RELEASE Tuesday, July 07, 2020 REOPENING OF LEARNING INSTIUTIONS IN KENYA On Monday July 6th 2020, His Excellency the President Uhuru Kenyatta directed the Ministry of Education to jointly, with all the stakeholders in the sector, notify the public on the resumption of learning for Basic Education and Tertiary […]
Join Our Telegram Group Dr. Nancy Macharia has been restored as the Teachers Service Commission CEO for another five-year term. Her previous term expired in the past week and it seems she impressed her employers with how she has handled teachers’ affairs with an iron fist. If you are on the government’s side, it is […]
It has become increasingly difficult for secondary and primary schools to reopen while observing the COVID-19 safety precautions to avoid more infections. Many suggestions have been bundled about but none has looked able to solve the reopening problem. Here are the ten possible solutions that the government can borrow to solve the September reopening of […]
Amid the looming uncertainty of whether education institutions will open or not, some commercial banks have already threatened to take on the property that school owners mortgaged as collateral security for loans. Mr. Patrick Kaboyo, the secretary for Federation of Non–state Education Institutions (FENEI) said the majority received loans from commercial banks in order to […]
The term for the Teachers’ Service Commission boss term officially ended on Tuesday 30th of June 2020, with plans for a possible reappointment or replacement not communicated yet. His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta has not gazetted her reappointment and even the process of appointing a new TSC CEO has not commenced. It is also not […]
The Makerere University academic registrar, Alfred Namoah Masikye shocked the entire fraternity with an abrupt revelation that the first-year admissions for the 2020/2021 Bachelor of Dental Surgery had been suspended. In his letter, Masikye added that the decision was a result of the directive issued by the East African Medical and Dental Council that required […]
With a total population of over 15 million students in Uganda, the President issued a directive in March to suspend all educational activities in schools, due to the threatening spread of the coronavirus pandemic all over the continent. As a result, all students that believed in the possibility of schools resuming this year embraced the […]
Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus once told his nation that they should ‘drink beer and wash their hands with it’. As ridiculous as that is especially coming from the head of state who is supposed to lead his flock by example, Belarus continued with football matches with fans attending despite the presence of the […]
There is a higher probability that Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) institutions will reopen in shifts, as opposed to primary and secondary schools. This revelation was brought forth by Education Cabinet Secretary, George Magoha who pointed at infrastructural challenges and congestion being a huge obstacle in the opening of primary and secondary schools. Speaking […]
A total of 129 students who were stuck in Sudan due to the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic have finally been evacuated. The group of lucky returnees aboard a Kenya Airways flight landed at Moi International Airport on Saturday evening and immediately went under a mandatory health check before they proceeded to the Kenya School […]
UGANDA: The Higher Education Students Financing Board (HESFB) has introduced a new actionable plan to help girls and special needs students to pursue higher education by providing them with government loans. According to the Executive Director of HESFB, Mr. Wanyama, the board has introduced an additional five points to the female students to enable them […]