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Join Our Facebook Page A stunning 42% drop out rate of children before the completion of primary school was reported by UNESCO in 2012. Since then, things are not any better, right from the elementary schools to universities and colleges. However, it is highly anticipated that the effects of the Covid-19 outbreak will skyrocket the […]
Join Our Facebook Page Following the closure of schools due to COVID-19, students are becoming extremely tired of staying at home. Those who have been learning online have also started getting bored. Based on research done by Teacher.co.ke, many learners miss the joy of being in school because there was more interaction with other learners […]
Join Our Facebook Page CS Magoha has given parents a solution to the school fees paid for the second and third terms for the year 2020. Most parents have been hit hard by the effects of COVID-19 on a financial basis and school fees paid in advance were always going to be a sticking point. […]
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 the proposal to reopen […]
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 Institutions by today. Following […]
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 hard to disagree. The […]
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 […]