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Join Our Telegram Group The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has ordered all school headteachers and principals to report to their various working stations on the 16th of January 2023. Public and private schools are to reopen for the first term of the 2023 academic calendar on the 23rd of January 2023 with Form One and […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has insisted that more than 300,000 who are unemployed have to attend the ongoing upgrading programme in order to be compliant with the new Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). The message was hammered home with the Commission declaring that TSC will not automatically take them in even if […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) President Nelson Havi has pledged to challenge the implementation of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) in the coming week. The LSK boss took to Twitter to inform parents, teachers and guardians that he shall be filing a petition that will challenge the CBC’s implementation in court. […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has called in teachers’ unions for another round of negotiations on the new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). The Commission failed to agree with the two major teachers unions, the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) during the first round of […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has not agreed on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement with teachers’ unions. The Commission had invited both the Kenya Union of Post Primary Teachers (KUPPET) and the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) at the Safari Park Hotel in Nairobi today to carry out negotiations that were expected to lead […]
The Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof George Magoha has revealed that the government is planning to upgrade select primary schools to secondary level in a bid to ensure implementation of the CBC is a success. With schools set to experience a double intake in the next one and half years, principals have been rightfully concerned […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is bracing itself to hire 5,000 teachers to secondary schools in the coming month. The Commission is planning to hire only secondary school teachers and leave out teachers with Primary Teacher Education (PTE) certificates. This is all in the big plan of the government to employ 15,000 school teachers which […]
Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof George Magoha is seeking to make Physical Education (PE) compulsory in all institutions of Basic education. According to the Ministry of Education’s new policy, all schools shall have sports communities and clubs to manage the teaching of Physical education. The policy is intended to make games a critical aspect of […]
A huge number of unemployed P1 teachers are set to join the twenty-four Teacher Training Colleges (TTC) for a one-year Diploma Course that will enable them to be on the same level with any looming changes in the Competency-Based Curriculum. Any interested parties could be allowed to apply for upgrade changes between June and July […]
Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof George Magoha has expressed his support for the move to do away with the Bachelor of Education (B. Ed.) degree program that would qualify to teach in Secondary schools. Speaking to journalists after overseeing the unveiling of a three-classroom block at Sagam Secondary school located in Siaya, Prof Magoha said […]
The following is the Teachers Service Commission’s 5-day zonal CBC Training Schedule for Teachers for the month of May 2021. ZONAL TEACHERS TRAINING PROGRAMME DAY 1: 31ST MAY 2021 TIME ACTIVITY FACILITATOR 8:00 – 8:15 am Arrival and registration 8:15 – 9:30 am Preliminaries, Prayers, introduction of Ground rules, opening remarks 9:30 – 10:30 am […]
All secondary school teachers will have to undergo a one-year mandatory post-graduate diploma in teaching before getting licensed to teach. According to the new proposals that the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) have outlined, all university graduates aspiring to be teachers will have to undergo a post-graduate diploma in education. Widespread reports indicate that the Commission […]