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Join Our Telegram Group Whether you’re a private proprietor or a head master in a government-aided school, there are lots of things you have to sacrifice in order to do your job to the best of your ability. In case you give in to these things, you might find yourself going down and taking your […]
Join Our Telegram Group The government has failed to allocate Kshs. 74 billion to help bring financial stability to public universities meaning the institutions are set for another year with financial problems. Many colleges are already experiencing problems due to having enormous debt which has been a stumbling block in their day-to-day operations. The Executive […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has revealed that the upcoming Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) national examination will be marked using new technology and teachers will not be involved in the exercise. KNEC acquired Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) machines which will electronically score the Grade 6 […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is set to train 116,024 secondary school teachers in preparation for the junior secondary school Grade 9 class. At least 60,000 secondary school teachers underwent training in handling Grade 7 and 8 in April this year. The Commission also trained 120,000 primary school teachers in handling grade 6 learners in […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has officially suspended the unpopular Teacher Professional Development (TPD) training programme. This has happened following Chief Justice Martha Koome’s and her counterparts unanimously dismissing a petition filed by Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition candidate Raila Odinga who was pushing for the declaration of Dr William Ruto as null and […]
Contractors constructing Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) classrooms have asked for an enhancement of their pay citing the current harsh economic situation across the country. They asked for a pay rise in compensation from the current Kshs. 788,000 to Kshsl 1.1 million per classroom. Around fifty per cent of CBC, contractors are said to have withdrawn from […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has started deploying Primary Teacher Education (PTE) teachers to secondary schools across the country. This has been revealed through the Commission’s official communication with the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT). The Commission’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) said that more teachers will be required to ensure seamless implementation of the […]
A nine years pupil was killed by a pack of hyenas in Nyacaba village in Juja, in Kiambu County leaving villagers in a state of worry. The third-grade pupil had been attending a private school in the area and was reported missing on Thursday. On Saturday, his clothes were found abandoned in a nearby thicket. […]
This whole transition from physical to online classes is all cool until you realize that your students aren’t as hooked onto your lessons as they would’ve been in a physical class. This is mainly because of factors like; Having distractions on their phones/ computers Distractions around the location where they’re having their lesson from Bad […]
Forgetting is what every student is afraid of whenever they’re learning something new or reviewing what they read some time back. Much as we might say that it’s inevitable to forget, there are so many ways that we can prevent or at least tone down on the rate at which we forget things. But first […]
The Ministry of Education has issued a circular regarding the contact information of Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Candidates (KCSE). The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) is intending to create a database with contact information details of all candidates to ‘facilitate communication’ to the candidates and their parent/guardians regarding school/centre application, revision […]
As an experienced teacher, you know that students perform poorly sometimes because of using the wrong study techniques – which is actually a more dominant factor than their innate intelligence. When you go out and scrape the web for answers, you’ll find lots of suggestions that might even blow your mind. However, this article contains […]