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Join Our Telegram Group 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 […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has responded following a myriad of complaints from both schools and teachers over the process of uploading Grade 4 scores. Grade 4 learners did their Formative Assessments in the last term. KNEC then made the 2020 Grade 4 Age-based and Intermediate Level Stage-based assessment tools […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has announced that they will train lower and upper-class primary school teachers in Competency-based Curriculum (CBC) this month (May). Through a circular dated the 7th of May 2021, TSC has announced that they shall start training as from the 25th of May to the 4th of […]
The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary-General has seen his deregistration from the Teachers Service Commission upheld. The Employment and Labour Relations Court has upheld TSC’s decision to deregister the ODM nominated Member of Parliament as a teacher due to gross misconduct. The ruling gave him the opportunity to defend his seat in the […]
The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has identified new job descriptions for classroom teachers which could lead to managerial and supervisory roles in schools assigned to them. Speaking to the media in his office, the KUPPET Deputy Secretary-General Moses Nthurima noted that the 2016/2017 SRC job evaluation assigned many supervisory roles to […]
Primary school teachers who teach in Grade 1, 2, and 3 shall attend a workshop under Tusome Early Grade Reading Activity which is a program of the Ministry of Education that supports English and Kiswahili literacy. The Ministry via a message sent to targeted teachers said that the training will include all teacher in public […]
The government has set aside Sh. 64 Billion for the implementation of the second phase of the digital literacy project that will now be used to construct computer labs in all public schools. The second phase will add to the first phase that led to the distribution of 1,169,000 tablets to 21,638 public primary schools […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has declared the cancellation of all annual leave and field activities for all its staff in preparation for the national examinations. The examinations shall commence on March 222. TSC Secretary Nancy Macharia yesterday directed all field officers to offer undivided attention to the process of examination. “The Commission has canceled […]
Education Cabinet Secretary Prof George Magoha has issued a warning to the school head of 30,000 primary schools against unnecessarily pressurizing Grade Four Pupils when the school-based assessment begins on Monday of the coming week. The CS said that the tests are not examinations while also advising parents not to panic unnecessarily. “No one should […]
The burden on parents of managing their children who are attending school will be laid bare today as there is an impending release of a report recommending an end to boarding schools. Preliminary findings of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) task-force reveal a proposal that all children joining Junior Secondary schools to be day-scholars. According to […]
Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha has appointed Professor Charles Ong’ondo as the new Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) director. The new KICD boss who has been a lecturer at Moi University will replace the outgoing Joel Mabonga who had been in office since February 2020, following the resignation of former KICD Boss Juan Julius. […]