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Join Our Telegram Group The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has called on the government o release the calendar for school sports and games. This comes after the Cabinet Secretary for Health Mutahi Kagwe directed that sporting activities resume in schools following a notable reduction of COVID-19 infections. President Uhuru Kenyatta suspended […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has now paid 12,000 teachers who missed out on the 2017-2021 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) a part of the arrears owed to them from the previous CBA. The 12,000 teachers are part of the 16,342 teachers who are members of the Kenya National Union of Teachers […]
Join Our Telegram Group Bridge International Academies is looking at an unstable future, at least financially following the withdrawal of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) as their sponsor. The International Finance Corporation (IFC) was resorted to stopping funding Bridge International Academies following protests from activists who argued that the schools are organizations that benefit their […]
Dibuoro Secondary School Principal, forty-two KCSE candidates, a Chemistry teacher and two laboratory technicians, the supervisor and five invigilators have been nabbed for engaging in examination malpractice. It was found out that the school had a leakage for Chemistry paper 3 which was done yesterday. Following the arrest, the suspects were taken to Siaya police […]
After being denied admission in five schools a young girl from Nandi County with albinism is now getting life skill development training at the Karen Contemplative Retreat Centre in Nairobi. Winnie Jelimo was ecstatic on Wednesday when she travelled for the first time via plane to Nairobi where she arrived to attend a life-changing training […]
The Teachers Service Commission’s selected institutions to offer the Teacher Professional Development (TPD) are still preparing to offer the training to teachers despite an order from Parliament against the training. Members of Parliament ordered a pause on the TPD until stakeholders have been consulted properly. The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has also not given any […]
Examiners reported to marking stations this week and are almost done marking the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) Insha ad Composition papers. The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) invited examiners to apply for 2021 marking exercise in preparation for the KCPE Insha and Composition and it now seems the examiners have done a great […]
Around 30 community libraries located in underserved areas are set for a donation of 18,000 books that will help in boosting literacy levels. Moto Books and Arts Festivals organizers have been invited authors, booksellers, publishers and the public to be involved in the Adopt-A-Library initiative by making books donations. The Director of Moto Books and […]
Police from West Pokot are currently looking for ten men who are suspected of assaulting a 12-year-old girl from Sigor after she refused to marry an elderly man. According to Marich Police Station, the young girl’s father and nine other men beat up the minor in abid to force her to accept being married after […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr Nancy Macharia has revealed that her Commission is ready to train teachers on the Competency-Based Curriculum in the coming month. According to the TSC CEO, the Commission and the Ministry of Education jointly working on ensuring that transition from primary to junior secondary school will […]
According to the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) Secretary-General Akelo Misori the union’s Savings and Credit Cooperative Sacco has been registered and is now running. The KUPPET Sec-Gen also revealed that the Sacco will come in handy for teachers who are members of the union. “We have registered our Sacco, Walimu Solidarity Sacco, […]
A Nandi County police officer has been arrested for abandoning his work responsibilities of providing security in the ongoing Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations at Koiban Secondary School. The police officer left the examination centre he was assigned to go join a chang’aa operation in Kimngoror area located in Nandi County. According to […]