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Join Our Telegram Group TSC Seeks Trainers for Junior Secondary Teachers in Science, Math, and English The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is recruiting a total of 2,629 facilitators for Junior Secondary School (JSS) teachers. The focus is on Integrated Science, Mathematics, and English subjects. This initiative expands the School-Based Teacher Support System (SBTSS) into Junior […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has been told to review its promotion and deployment criteria for teachers. The Kenya Women Teachers Association (KEWOTA) made this call in a bid to address the issues affecting their members. Currently, the Commission is carrying out a retooling exercise across the country for teachers in […]
Join Our Telegram Group It has been revealed that teachers have been involved in various examination malpractices by interfering with the registration process of candidates at various centres. Some teachers are alleged to register candidates based on their performance in internal examinations and bright students are registered at one school while the rest are registered […]
Nandi County political leaders have urged the Ministry of Education to ensure Competence-Based Curriculum (CBC) is affordable and accessible to everybody. While speaking in Nandi Hills, Senator Samson Cherargei complained that the new curriculum is too expensive and the burden of bearing the cost has been placed squarely on parents. Cherargei called on the government […]
The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has succeeded in its call for the training of Junior Secondary School (JSS) teachers to be completed within the weekdays on Friday instead of on Sunday as it was earlier planned. The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) had initially planned to conduct the retooling exercise for Grade 7 (Junior […]
The Ministry of Education has revealed an investigation into the allegations of cheating during the 2022 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations. The Ministry has also called on members of the public to provide information or any leads that could help in the ongoing investigations. According to the government, the allegations of cheating are […]
The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has claimed that the decision of the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms (PWPER) to deviate from the initial plan of implementing the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) that had guided the curriculum for five years without considering its recommendations was a mistake. According to KUPPET, the government should […]
Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) classroom contractors in Migori County who were awarded tenders to construct classrooms for the CBC during President Uhuru Kenyatta’s tenure have threatened to make the classrooms inaccessible due to a lack of payments. According to the contractors, the government is yet to make payments to them for more than two months since […]
The Ministry of Education (MoE) is set to build 8,000 new laboratories for Junior Secondary Schools (JSSs) across the country in a bid to ensure that the implementation of the new Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) is a success. It has been approximated that the government is set to allocate Kes. 10 billion and cover around 40% […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is planning to re-train more than 67,000 teachers on handling the first-ever Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) class currently in Junior Secondary School (JSS) at Grade 7. According to a memo issued by TSC, the 67,000 teachers include 11,192 teachers who have a mean score of C+ (Plus) and above in their […]
The government has issued a new regulation that will allow students to wear uniforms from their previous schools. On Tuesday the 28th of February 2023, this consensus was arrived at, at State House Nairobi under the direction of President William Ruto. According to the Cabinet Secretary for Education Ezekiel Machogu, no pupil should be expelled […]
According to reports, a debt of Kes. 6 billion and the delayed release of the school’s distribution list is why the supply of textbooks for Grade 7 learners has not been completed, several weeks after schools reopened. The delayed release of the report issued by the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms (PWPER) which would […]