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KNUT and UASU Propose Continued Stay at Home due to COVID-19

Join Our Telegram Group A group of unions for secondary, primary, and university teaching staff have come up with a proposal for students to continue staying at home until as far as November 2021. This group comprises of the University Academic Staff Union (UASU) and Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT). They are both recommending […]

Detailed 2020/2021 HELB Loan Applications Procedure

Join Our Telegram Group Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) has announced the opening of their portal for applications for second and subsequent Undergraduate Loans for the year 2020/2021 financial year. This announcement from HELB applies to students sponsored by the government or self-sponsored admitted to both private and public universities. The scope of the allowable […]

Kenya Bracing for Full Adoption of Online Examinations

Join Our Telegram Group Kenyan Educational institutions are gearing towards the full adoption of online examinations after 2 months of closure following the un-ending Coronavirus pandemic. It’s getting tougher for all students across the country; more so this year’s examination candidates. The outbreak of the coronavirus has seen the closure of learning institutions from the […]

CS Magoha Once Again Insists No Postponing KCSE and KCPE Exams

The Cabinet Secretary of Education prof George Magoha has insisted that the government will not postpone the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) national examinations to compensate the Lost time during the Covid-19 national pandemic. Prof Magoha was addressing the nation at Afya House in Nairobi on the […]

2020 ECDE and SNE Examinations Postponed Until Further Notice

The 2020 Early Childhood Development Education ECDE and Special Needs Education SNE April Examinations by Kenya National Examinations Council KNEC have been postponed until further notice. Kenya National Examinations Council issued a circular dated 30th March 2020 to all principals of colleges offering 2020 ECDE and SNE examinations citing the postponement. KNEC CEO, Dr. Mercy […]

CS Magoha Warns Teachers On Tuition During Corona Break

Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary of Education Professor George Magoha has sent a stern warning against teachers or anyone assembling learners for any form of tuition during this period of closure meant to fight the spread of Corona Virus (Covid19). In a statement through the Ministry of Education twitter handle, the Cabinet Secretary discouraged individuals assembling learners […]

Uhuru Orders All Schools Closed from Monday to Curb Corona Spread

President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered all schools in Kenya to be closed from Monday the 16th March 2020 to help curb the spread of Corona (Covid-19) Virus. Through a press statement to the country, the President clearly stipulated that he has suspended learning in all education institutions. “Consequently and to facilitate a phased approach, primary […]

Intelligence Report Confirms KNEC Officers Part of Exams Cheating Cartels

Intelligence Report Confirms KNEC Officers Part of Exams Cheating Cartels An intelligence report by Kenya’s National Intelligence Service NIS has confirmed that the Kenya National Examinations Council KNEC Officers were part of the cartels involved in examination cheating. According to the report, the senior officers at the examinations council aided in leaking of the national […]

KNEC Allows Registration of Exams without UPI Number

The Kenya National Examinations Council KNEC has allowed the candidates to register for the KCSE 2020 examinations without necessarily having the NEMIS Unique Personal Identification UPI numbers. Removal of the UPI requirement in the registration process will lighten up many candidates who were having a hard time to register. KNEC had necessitated the UPI numbers […]

Wife Busts Two Senior Gov’t Officers ‘Baking Sweet Forbidden Potato’

Two high ranking government officials were caught committing an act of darkness in a secretive location in Kilimani, along Kindaruma road in Nairobi. The two love birds whose identities are concealed,  are renown public figures, one of them from the education sector and the other a senior judiciary officer. According to the Star article posted […]

Tabagon Girls High School KCSE 2019 Results

Tabagon Girls High School is a girls secondary school that posted a  good school mean score of 6.653 in 2019 KCSE examination results and emerged among the best schools in Baringo Central Sub County in Baringo County. Tabagon Girls High School Emerges 3rd Top Best School in Baringo Central Sub County A total of 99 […]