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Several Teachers’ Fate Unknown Following School Bus Accident

Join Our Telegram Group Yesterday the 19th of November 2022, a school bus crashed in Taita Taveta County leading to the killing of several people on board. The accident occurred between Wundayi and Mwatate near a common blackspot at Josa. It has been revealed that the bus was transporting teachers from Memon Academy who were […]

KICD to Integrate Financial Literacy in the CBC

Join Our Telegram Group As Grade Six learners are going on with their preparations for their Kenya Primary School Education Assessments (KPSEA), plans are being finalized for a financial literacy course for junior and high school teachers in February. The programme that was designed by the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) and Old Mutual, […]

Cybercrime Experts in Place to Handle Cheating In National Examinations

Join Our Telegram Group The government has put in place cybercrime experts to handle any cases of examination cheating in the forthcoming national examinations. This year institutions of basic education are set to handle up to three examinations with primary schools having the 8-4-4’s Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and the Competence-Based Curriculum’s Kenya […]

National Parents’ Association Calls for Abolishment of Boarding School

The National Parents’ Association (NPA) has called for boarding schools to be abolished and services offered in private schools. The NPA wants a law enacted to ban the decision of some schools to force learners who are below average or average to repeat classes. This was revealed through a presentation to the Presidential Working Party […]

More Primary School Teachers Contracted to administer KPSEA examinations

The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has added to the number of primary school teachers set to administer primary school examinations and assessments. The Examiner has contracted more than 250,000 teachers in pre-primary, primary and secondary schools to administer this year’s national examinations set to be done towards the end of this month. Due to […]

Circular Issued On Dismissal of Public Servants with Improper Certificates

Office of the Chairperson Ref. PSC/ADM/13 19th October, 2022 All Authorized Officers RE: AUTHENTICATION OF ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE One of the Commission’s Constitutional mandate is to establish offices in the public service, appoint persons to hold or act in those offices. In selecting candidates for appointment, promotion or re-designation, the […]

School Heads First in Line in TSC’s Re-Routing Plan

Primary school headteachers and secondary school principals and their deputies are first in line in the Teachers Service Commission’s plan for re-routing teachers set to happen early next year. School administrators were the most affected by the delocalization policy and the Commission is now seemingly set to start with the first in the re-routing plan […]

547 KNUT Members Apply For Reverse Delocalization

More than 500 teachers who are members of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) have already applied to be returned to their home counties. KNUT revealed this on Tuesday saying that 547 teachers had called on the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to transfer them back to their former schools. In the past week, the […]

KNEC concerned about 2000 schools missing Grade 6 Scores

According to the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC), there are more than 2,000 primary schools that are missing scores for Grade 6 learners. It has been revealed that these schools are yet to submit their scores. According to the examiner, the schools did not submit scores for the School Based Assessment (SBA) scores that the […]

Teachers’ Unions Call For Better Medical Cover for Teachers

Teachers are set to wait for a few weeks at least for the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to finalize the approval of the selection of an insurance provider. According to the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary-General Collins Oyuu, teachers had in previous times voiced their concerns over the current medical insurance provider, AON […]

KNUT Reveals Why TSC May Take Longer To Approve Transfers of Heads of Schools

Principals and deputy principals might have to wait for longer for the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to approve their transfer requests. According to the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), the teachers’ employer has to find schools where there are vacancies for the transfers to go through. According to Collins Oyuu, the KNUT Secretary General, […]