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Join Our Telegram Group The Government through the Cabinet Secretary for Education Ezekiel Machogu has abolished morning and evening preps for learners in a move set to give them enough rest. CS Machogu said that learners should not be asked to report to class before the break of dawn and end school activities before dusk. […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is grappling with delays in the recruitment of Junior Secondary School Teachers with the pioneer Grade 7 learners of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) learners joining today. According to reports, the Commission could use primary school teachers (P1 teachers) to teach in Grade 7. Admission of Grade […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) through the Nyandarua Branch Executive Secretary Johana Ndung’u has implored the government to rename Junior Secondary School (JSS) to Intermediate School. According to the union official, this will help in distinguishing JSS learners from their fellow learners in primary school. Ndung’u was speaking at […]
Unknown people have murdered a Masogo Secondary School teacher in cold blood. The school is located in Kisumu County. It has been alleged that the suspected robbers had been on board a motorcycle at the Nyamasaria area in Kisumu East when they attacked the late Edwin Okoth before killing him. After getting wind of the […]
The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) wants the Teachers Service Commission to consider deploying teachers who attained grade C (Plain) in their national examinations to secondary schools. Currently, the Commission only recruits candidates who attained grade C+ to teach in secondary schools. KNUT Secretary-General Collins Oyuu lauded the government’s move of gathering views from […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has revealed that considerations are in place regarding the delocalization program. Part of those considerations is to allow teachers aged 56 years or older to work in their home counties. Besides, their spouses are to be stationed in stations that are near the schools where those aged 56 years or […]
The abolishment of the Teachers Service Commission’s (TSC) delocalization by President William Ruto’s administration has given optimism to heads of institutions that they will be finally back in their home counties soon. However, despite the abolishment, it will take longer for heads of institutions across the country to be transferred back to their home counties. […]
The Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Education Ezekiel Machogu has implored Principals of Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges to stick to offering technical courses as directed by the Ministry of Education. CS Machogu said that some TVET colleges had been offering other courses related to technical skills. According to him, in some instances, the […]
Primary school headteachers and secondary school principals and their deputies are first in line in the Teachers Service Commission’s plan for re-routing teachers set to happen early next year. School administrators were the most affected by the delocalization policy and the Commission is now seemingly set to start with the first in the re-routing plan […]
More than 500 teachers who are members of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) have already applied to be returned to their home counties. KNUT revealed this on Tuesday saying that 547 teachers had called on the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to transfer them back to their former schools. In the past week, the […]
The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) have clashed regarding the establishment of junior high schools and reforms in the education sector. The two teachers’ unions have offered different views regarding the education system reforms to the Presidential Working Group on Education Reforms (PWPER) in separate […]
Teachers are set to wait for a few weeks at least for the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to finalize the approval of the selection of an insurance provider. According to the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary-General Collins Oyuu, teachers had in previous times voiced their concerns over the current medical insurance provider, AON […]