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Join Our Telegram Group The Principal Secretary in the State Department for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and innovation Jerome Ochieng’ has shown his appreciation for the contribution of ICT to the growth of the country’s economy. The PS was speaking while attending the training of accredited suppliers, contractors and county officials on ICT standards […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Principal Secretary in the State Department for Vocational and Technical Training Dr Margaret Mwakima has revealed that the government is committed to building a Technical and Vocational Training Centre (TVET) in every constituency countrywide. According to the PS, there are only 46 constituencies at the moment that do not have […]
Join Our Telegram Group Police have nabbed a medical student who is alleged to have faked his kidnapping in order to extort money from his parents. The suspect, Edwin Kamau, is a 23-year-old student at Makindu Medical Training College. He is alleged to have hidden on Sunday, blocked his father’s phone before calling his mother […]
Interior Cabinet Secretary Dr Fred Matiang’i has declared Monday the 11th of July a public holiday via a Gazette Notice in honour of Idd- Ul-Adha. “It is notified for general information that in the exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3 as read with section 2 (2) of the Public Holidays Act (Cap. 110), […]
The Principal Secretary in the State Department for Early Learning and Basic Education Dr Julius Jwan has implored teachers to let parents spend quality time with their children during the school holidays. He directed teachers not to keep learners in school for holiday tuition saying that learners need to have a rest in the timelines […]
The Teachers Service Commission has developed a Code of Conduct and Ethics for its secretariat which has serious implications for the professional life of staff working at the Commission. The Code of Conduct and Ethics tool was forwarded to all TSC Regional officers for forwarding to staff within their jurisdictions. TSC employees were directed to […]
The Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) Chief Executive Prof. Charles Ong’ondo has warned private school owners and teachers against assigning unreasonable tasks to students instead of using locally available materials. In addition, Prof Ong’ondo urged business people to be aware of circulars issued by the government especially those concerning books. Ong’ondo urged parents to […]
Parents whose children are in Grade 6 have been urged to not buy model test papers intended for the first end-of-primary-school assessment under the new Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) scheduled to be done this November. Some firms have already started selling model test papers for summative assessment which takes around forty per cent of the overall […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is set to publish the names of shortlisted applicants in the ongoing recruitment for the recently advertised slots on its official website by Friday, 15th of July 2022. According to the Commission, it will publish the names of shortlisted applicants between the 13th and 15th of July 2022. TSC recently […]
The Teachers Service Commission has ‘favoured’ teachers with the English/Literature combination in this month’s recruitment exercise. In the advertised vacancies, teachers with the combination were allocated a total of 884 slots. This represents a significant gap when compared to the other combinations. English/Literature teachers were allocated 253 slots in replacement slots and a further 631 […]
According to the Ministry of Health’s statistics that were released on Tuesday 98 new HIV infections were recorded each week among adolescents who are aged between 10 and 19 years in the last year. According to them, this is because of the tripling of new HIV infections, gender and sexual violence, and adolescent pregnancies. Kenya […]
The Government has warned private schools against flouting the directives issued regarding holiday tuition. The government has called on owners of private schools not to force learners to attend classes during the 10-day holiday after the close of the first term. The Ministry of Education received information about some private schools that are offering holiday […]