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Join Our Telegram Group The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers has implored the government to pay teachers what they are owed and those deserving of promotion to be issued one. Omboko Milemba, the KUPPET national chairperson of the union while attending the union’s general meeting on Saturday, revealed that talks are ongoing between the […]
Join Our Telegram Group 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, […]
Join Our Telegram Group 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 […]
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 […]
Principals and deputy principals might have to wait for longer for the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to approve their transfer requests. According to the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), the teachers’ employer has to find schools where there are vacancies for the transfers to go through. According to Collins Oyuu, the KNUT Secretary General, […]
The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) Uasin Gishu Branch Chairperson Sosthen Bellat has urged the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to stop terrorizing teachers. “We want TSC’s powers to be cut so that it can only deal with promotion and employment. It has a lot of power and needs to be reduced,” said […]
A court case challenging the legality of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) is scheduled for hearing next week on the 27th of September. Former Law Society of Kenya (LSK) president Nelson Havi who took over the case from the initial petitioner has revealed that he is prepared to thwart the outgoing Cabinet Secretary for Education’s efforts […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has given teachers across the country one week to complete their Second term Teacher Performance Appraisal and Development (TPAD) appraisals. Teachers now have until the end of the week when schools will be closing complete their TPAD. According to the teachers’ employer, TPAD allows teachers in both primary and secondary […]
The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) and the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) want Junior Secondary schools to be hosted in day schools. The teachers’ unions revealed that because of the age difference, learners at this level might not adapt well to coexisting with those in Forms One to Four who […]
Mount Kenya University (MKU) has rebuffed claims that the opinion-splitting Teacher Professional Development (TPD) was put on hold. The institution’s management has revealed that they have not received any official communication on the same from the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). MKU released their official advertisement for the roll-out of the September 2022 TPD training programme. […]