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Here is How TSC will pay Hardship Allowance to New Hardship areas

Join Our Facebook Page The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) recently updated the list of all recognized hardship areas among them new areas while others were removed due to a change in infrastructure and other factors. Teachers teaching in schools located in recognized areas of hardships are paid a hardship allowance which serves as motivation. Conditions […]

TSC Warns Teachers Pressure Group It Has the Mandate to Transfer Teachers

Join Our Facebook Page The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has warned the Kenya National Teachers Pressure Group that it has the right to transfer teachers from one school to another. This comes after the group’s case was dismissed in court after five teachers belonging to the group protested their transfers to their new schools. The […]

Media Urged To Stop Negative Reporting Regarding KCSE

Join Our Facebook Page The Principal Secretary to the State Department for University Education and Research Amb Simon Nabukwesi has called on the media to stop reporting negative things about the ongoing Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE). Amb Nabukwesi spoke positively regarding the KCSE examinations saying that the examination’s integrity is ‘perfect’ implying that […]

Magoha’s Request to CBC Judges

The Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof George Magoha has implored the three-judge bench that is set to hear a petition to halt the implementation of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). CS Magoha was speaking on Wednesday the 23rd of March in Nairobi when he said that parents and the government as well, have invested hugely in […]

Maasai Girls Principal Probed Over Exam Malpractice

The Principal of Maasai Girl’s Secondary School Ms Rose Otieno is being probed over allegedly attempting to leak the ongoing Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE). Narok County Commissioner Isaac Masinde said that investigations had been started regarding the allegations that parents had made claiming that she was soliciting Kshs. 3,000 from them to use […]

Magoha Reveals Day KCPE Results Will Be Out

The Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof George Magoha has revealed that the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) results will be officially released on any day between Wednesday and Saturday this week. Kenyans have been mostly speculative when asked when the KCPE results will be released since the KCPE Insha and Composition papers have already […]

Exam Cheaters Afraid As Ministry of Education Introduces These New Rules

The Ministry of Education (MoE) has announced five new rules to curb cheating in the ongoing Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE). Yesterday, Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof George Magoha directed examination centre managers to follow the five rules in a press address that comes amid the reporting of examination cheating cases that have allegedly […]

KUPPET asks Government to Release Calendar for Schools’ Games and Sports

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 all sporting activities in […]

TSC Pays Teachers Who Missed Out In CBA Benefits

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 (KNUT) who had not […]

Bridge International Academies’ future in ruins as Donor Withdraws Funding

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 owners.  The World Bank’s […]

Principal and 42 KCSE Candidates Arrested Over Cheating

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 […]