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Join Our Telegram Group The government has been urged to deliver JSS books as President Ruto dismisses reports of HELB being broke. The government has been implored to urgently deliver all textbooks that will are required in Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) to ensure smooth running in those institutions. The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has urged the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) to pay dues meant for the 2022 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examiners in two weeks. According to the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) National Chairperson Omboko Milemba, more than 50,000 examiners […]
Join Our Telegram Group Teachers’ unions have united in the call for a review of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) Career Progression Guidelines (CPG). The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary-General Collins Oyuu has said that the CPG has caused a lot of stagnation among teachers and that while they renegotiate the 2021-2025 Collective […]
Bumula Constituency’s Member of Parliament (MP) Hon Jack Wamboka has flagged off a school feeding programme meant for all class eight students in the constituency. Speaking at Bumula Girls High School during the official launch of the programme, Hon Wamboka said that the move is intended to ensure that all the 9,000 students across the […]
The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has accused the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) of planning to frustrate teachers’ demands for new salaries and allowances. The teachers’ union’s officials led by their Secretary-General Akello Misori were responding to a story in a local daily newspaper that had reported that the SRC had increased […]
The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has voiced its support for additional day schools and advocated for the abolishment of boarding wings in sub-county schools. KUPPET also lauded the Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu’s proposal to introduce day wings in boarding schools. The teachers’ union also proposed that the government abolishes boarding sections […]
The Kenya Union of Post Primary Teachers (KUPPET) wants the government to review the rates of marking the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examiners to Kes 100 per paper. At the moment, examiners are paid different rates depending on the subjects they mark. Christian Religious Education (CRE) subject examiners are paid Kes 55 for […]
The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Teachers (KUPPET) has implored the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to promote teachers who have been stuck in job grades C3 and C4. While addressing the media at Emusire Boys High School in Emuhaya constituency in Vihiga County during the finals of the Anyole Super Cup, KUPPET National Chairperson Hon Jeremiah […]
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 negotiations on the 2021-2025 non-monetary Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) will start in January 2023. The TSC Director of Legal, Labour and Industrial Relations Cavin Anyuor confirmed that they had received more than seven letters from the KUPPET Secretary-General […]
A clinical psychologist has recommended to the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms (PWPER) that the government recruits professional counsellors in both primary and secondary schools. In her view, this will curb the increasing cases of mental health in both students and teachers. According to Dr Monica Gitonga, behaviours exhibited by children were mental health […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has been blamed for failing to confirm teachers who have been working in an acting capacity across Kenyan schools. The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has laid the blame on the Commission for failing to confirm teachers who are rightfully supposed to have been confirmed in their acting […]