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Join Our Telegram Group According to reports, some headteachers applied for positions in Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) when the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) recently advertised vacancies in the past month. In a circular dated the 17th of February 2023, TSC advertised the availability of 10,833 requests for the deployment of qualified primary school teachers to […]
Join Our Telegram Group Maseno University is now set to admit the first-ever law students after the Council on Legal Education (CLE) approved the institution. The latest approval follows the approval to provide Bachelor of Medicine programs that were issued ten years ago. Maseno University is now set to have its own School of Law. […]
Join Our Telegram Group During an event to celebrate the International Jiggers Day held in Khwisero Constituency, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ahadi Kenya Stanley Kamau issued a warning to school head teachers against sending learners home because of being infested with jiggers. The Ahadi CEO reiterated that the infestation of jiggers is a […]
According to the Kenya Primary School Sports Association (KPSSA) Chairperson, junior secondary school students will join their colleagues in primary school in games activities, Grade Seven (7) learners will take part in the field and track events that were rolled out for primary schools. In the KPSSA letter addressed to all Regional, County and Sub-County […]
Kisii County’s Governor Simba Arati has heaped praise on the Cabinet Secretary for Education Ezekiel Machogu for his efforts to improve the education sector in the country and promised that he would support him to ensure that quality education is accessible to most in the region. Governor Simba Arati was speaking at Bomachoge Chache Constituency […]
The Government of Kenya has announced a donation worth Kes. 140 billion from the British Council intended to assist six universities in the country. The grant is aimed at cushioning the institutions against the challenges of underfunding and allowing them to expand their academic programmes. The speaker of the National Assembly Moses Wetangula revealed the […]
Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) classroom contractors in Migori County who were awarded tenders to construct classrooms for the CBC during President Uhuru Kenyatta’s tenure have threatened to make the classrooms inaccessible due to a lack of payments. According to the contractors, the government is yet to make payments to them for more than two months since […]
Meru University of Science and Technology has dismissed their Vice-Chancellor Prof Romanus Odhiambo due to poor performance. In a letter dated the 28th of February 2023, the University Council evaluated Odhiambo’s performance and found it to be below their expectations. The University Council elected not to renew Odhiambo’s contract as requested in his letter dated […]
The government has proposed scrapping hardship allowances in areas that it has since developed over time and should no longer be categorized as hardship areas. A report to do a review on hardship allowance is set to be tabled in parliament for adoption in the coming week and has unsettled teachers in hardship areas. Representatives […]
A Member of Parliament (MP) and some applicants for teaching jobs in Machakos County have urged the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to cancel the recruitment process due to alleged irregularities. Yatta MP Robert Basil has implored the TSC Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr Nancy Macharia to intervene and repeat the exercise of recruitment to ensure […]
The Ministry of Education (MoE) is set to build 8,000 new laboratories for Junior Secondary Schools (JSSs) across the country in a bid to ensure that the implementation of the new Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) is a success. It has been approximated that the government is set to allocate Kes. 10 billion and cover around 40% […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is planning to re-train more than 67,000 teachers on handling the first-ever Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) class currently in Junior Secondary School (JSS) at Grade 7. According to a memo issued by TSC, the 67,000 teachers include 11,192 teachers who have a mean score of C+ (Plus) and above in their […]