Grade 4 and Class 8 Assessment Timetable Released

Join Our Facebook Page The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has released the timetable for the assessment examination of Grade 4 and Class 8, which learners will do on Monday. Schools will assess Grade four learners for four days, that is, from Monday to Thursday. Class 8 students on the other hand will do their […]

UoN Lecturers Strike Over Allowances to Delay Graduation of Med Students

Join Our Facebook Page Kenya is on the verge of having a shortage of medics if medical students from the University of Nairobi do not graduate this year. The medical students are around 600 in number. Lecturers’ conflict with the university over delay in disbursement of their clinical allowances.  Both undergraduate and postgraduate medical students […]

Grade 4 and Class 8 students prepare for KNEC’s assessment

After many months of the corona-enforced holiday, students in class 8 and grade 4 are set to sit for an assessment examination in the coming week. The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) released guidelines for the tests that headteachers of primary schools will manage. The other learners in classes that have not reported yet to […]

Musingu Boys High School Dormitory on Fire 2 Days After Reopening

On Wednesday 14 October 2020, Musingu Boys High School in Ikolomani, Kakamega County, was on the spot after fire consumed a dormitory. The dormitory by the name Oparanya Hostel, went into flames at around noon. Sources at the school said that the fire  begun at around 11 a.m while the students were in class undertaking […]

Here’s Why Every Teacher Should Be Part Of A Sacco

In this post, we will try to explain why every teacher should at least be part of a SACCO. Sacco’s are Savings and Credit Cooperatives in full, and you can simply understand them as the kind of organizations that encourage savings and provide loans to their members, depending on; Their savings Their amount of shares Duration […]

TSC’S Scoring System for Hiring Teachers Causes Uproar

Complains have emerged concerning the 11,574 vacancies advertised by the Teachers Service Commission. Teachers who applied for the posts are not happy and feel the scoring system used to recruit is hugely faulty as it hands the advantage to some candidates or applicants The vacancies advertised by TSC on the 1st of September 2020, saw […]

TSC Layoff 30 Teachers on Misconduct Grounds

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia on Monday, October 12th, announced the layoff of 30 teachers from service following offences against the TSC code of conduct. Dr. Macharia also announced the registration of 8,500 new teachers to the commission’s register. The 8,500 teachers aren’t a part of the 11,000 job vacancies that […]