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TSC Told to Cancel Recruitment of Teachers over Irregularities

Join Our Facebook Page 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 […]

Government Set to Build 8,000 Laboratories for Junior Secondary School

Join Our Facebook Page 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 […]

TSC Set to Re-tool more than 67,000 Teachers for JSS

Join Our Facebook Page 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) […]

Bandit Seizes a Primary School in Baringo and Turns it into His Home

A bandit in Baringo County has seized a primary school block in Baringo County and turned it into his home in an uncharacteristic show of defiance. A shocking revelation has hit the headlines after Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki told the Senate that a Standard Eight classroom is now the man’s bedroom while standard seven […]

Retired Teacher Arrested over the Valentine’s Day Murder of His Wife

A retired primary school teacher has been arrested after his wife died during Valentine’s Day in Chepkumia Village in Nandi County. According to reports, the cause of death of Rose Jerono Ng’asura shocked villagers with a post-mortem report and other investigations revealing that she was stabbed on the night of February 14 while in her […]

Government Allows JSS Learners to Wear Old Uniforms

The government has issued a new regulation that will allow students to wear uniforms from their previous schools. On Tuesday the 28th of February 2023, this consensus was arrived at, at State House Nairobi under the direction of President William Ruto. According to the Cabinet Secretary for Education Ezekiel Machogu, no pupil should be expelled […]

TSC Set to Review 2021-2025 CBA for July’s Salary Increment

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is set to review the 2021-2025 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that it signed together with the main teachers’ unions. The main teachers’ unions that signed the 2021-2025 CBA are the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Teachers (KUPPET) and the KEWOTA. The Commission wants around […]

Here is why the Distribution of Grade 7 Textbooks Has Been Delayed

According to reports, a debt of Kes. 6 billion and the delayed release of the school’s distribution list is why the supply of textbooks for Grade 7 learners has not been completed, several weeks after schools reopened. The delayed release of the report issued by the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms (PWPER) which would […]

TSC Set to Recruit 20,000 Grade 7 Teachers this July

According to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) Chief Executive Officer Dr Nancy Macharia, the Commission is set to recruit 20,000 intern teachers to teach Grade 7 in July this year. The move is intended to address the shortage of teachers in Junior Secondary Schools (JSS). The TSC CEO revealed this in parliament when asked what […]