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Join Our Facebook Page The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has issued the following circular regarding the absorption of intern teacherson permanent and pensionable (pnp) terms. TEACHERS SERVICE COMMISSION INTERNAL MEMO TO: DIRECTOR (HRM&D) REF: TSC/DS/INTERNS/CORRS/17B/OL.III DATE: 11TH JANUARY 2023 ABSORPTION OF THE 2022 SERVING INTERNS INTO PERMANENT AND PENSIONABLE TERMS OF SERVICE The Board has […]
Join Our Facebook Page The Kenya Union of Post Primary Teachers (KUPPET) wants the government to review the rates of marking the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examiners to Kes 100 per paper. At the moment, examiners are paid different rates depending on the subjects they mark. Christian Religious Education (CRE) subject examiners are […]
Join Our Facebook Page This year the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) Group is set to sponsor around one thousand students across the country. Students are required to have passed well in the recently released Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and should be coming from humble backgrounds. Out of the 1,000 beneficiaries, 10% of the […]
Egerton University dons have threatened to go on strike over financial issues through the Universities Academic Staff Union (UASU). This was after the institution decided to issue layoff notifications in December last year. Grace Kibue, the secretary of UASU Egerton, and Mwaniki Ngare the Chairperson of UASU Egerton said that the plans have come at […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has approved the transfer of 14,613 teachers back to their home counties bringing the Commission’s delocalization policy to an end. However, it has been revealed that 120 transfer requests by delocalized teachers were denied because the Commission is yet to find replacements. The moment the Commission opened the window to […]
According to a section of parents, the government’s directive to domicile Grade 7 learners in their former primary schools could hurt learners who had been prepared psychologically that they would transition to the next level in different schools. Some parents from Kisii County pleaded to the Ministry of Education to reverse the decision claiming that […]
A Narok Court has imposed a life sentence on a 50-year-old man who pleaded guilty to defiling and then marrying a ten-year-old schoolgirl. Saigulu Ololosereka, appeared before a Narok Senior Resident Magistrate Phyllis Shinyada, and was charged with defiling a 10-year-old girl and then marrying her in 2019. In her judgment, Ms. Shinyada said that […]
The Kenya National Examiners Council (KNEC) has today the 11th of January 2023 dismissed all CRE Paper 1 examiners. The dismissal is with immediate effect. The examiners who had returned to continue with the marking exercise at St. Francis Mang’u Girls High School have been told to leave the centre. The Kenya National Examination Council […]
The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has issued the following statement regarding the marking of the 2023 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE). THE KENYA NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL ‘On the Frontline in Quality Assessment and Examinations’ PRESS STATEMENT MARKING OF THE 2023 KENYA CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION EXAMINATION The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) wishes […]
Yesterday the marking exercise of the 2022 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) was momentarily halted at St. Francis Girls Mang’u High School located in Gatundu North. More than 1,000 examiners who were marking from the station downed tools on Monday night claiming that they had been affected by harsh working conditions and poor pay. […]
The Ministry of Education (MoE) has started a two-week multi-agency approach to assess the country’s 32,594 primary schools’ capacity to host Junior Secondary Schools (JSS). This is also set to inform the decision to register them for Junior Secondary School (JSS). The team is scheduled to carry out the exercise between the 9th and the […]
Teachers who are going to be successful in securing employment in the ongoing recruitment exercise will fill out employment forms between the 24th and 31st of January 2023. The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is publishing the names of shortlisted candidates and county recruitment process begins across the country to vet applicants, handle complaints and sign […]