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Join Our Telegram Group KNUT has urged teachers who are able to manage financially to enrol for the TPD to do so in order to improve their skills. Speaking while at the KNUT headquarters in Nairobi in a press briefing, the union’s Secretary General Collins Oyuu revealed that the programme needs to be supported by […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) have agreed to jointly launch a sensitization program on Teacher Professional Development (TPD). This information was revealed by the KNUT Secretary-General Collins Oyuu following a series of meetings with the Commission held at Naivasha. According to Collins Oyuu, […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof George Magoha has told teachers that the government cannot afford their demand of a sixty per cent (60%) pay rise. Speaking while in Mombasa where he inspected the construction of Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) classrooms in Changamwe and Bomu, CS Magoha revealed that the government is […]
Primary Schools Teachers have started receiving deployment letters to secondary schools with the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). The Commission is planning to deploy practicing P1 teachers who qualify to teach in secondary schools to teach in various secondary schools that have vacancies. The Commission started implementing the policy in 2019 when 1,000 p1 teachers were […]
The Deputy Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) secretary-general has revealed what transpired during the meeting between the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and the teachers’ union. Hesbon Otieno, the KNUT Deputy Secretary-General said that talks regarding salary increments as well as other issues affecting teachers were discussed and concluded. “We had a cordial discussion that […]
Teachers who are examiners are contracted under the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) and are also paid by the same body. Collins Oyuu urged KNEC to increase the remunerations that are allocated to centre managers, invigilators supervisors and markers involved in the whole process of conducting and marking the national examinations. There are two national […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has now paid 12,000 teachers who missed out on the 2017-2021 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) a part of the arrears owed to them from the previous CBA. The 12,000 teachers are part of the 16,342 teachers who are members of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) who had not […]
The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary-General Collins Oyuu has changed tune and asked for a review on the salary deal that the teachers’ unions signed with the Teachers Service Commission in 2020 that did not include monetary benefits. Since Collins Oyuu’s election as KNUT’s Secretary-General, the union has mainly played to the tune […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is cracking down on teachers who have claimed to be working under instructions from former Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary-General Wilson Sossion. Kenya National Teachers Pressure Group (KNTPG) are being sought and immediate action is taken against them. Transfer to far-flung areas is being issued to members of […]
The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) current Secretary-General Collins Oyuu has come forward and pledged his support for TSC’s TPD programme. However, many teachers have been venting their frustrations over the TPD and are not in support of the move with a yearly stipend of Sh. 6,000 for the training stressing the already cash-strapped […]
A group of Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) members from Siaya County have protested against school headteachers who are currently holding positions of leadership in the union. The feeling is that while there is a policy in place that bars school administrators from joining trade unions, there are many a headteacher in the county […]
Former Kenya Nation Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary-General Wilson Sossion and his new team have formed a new teachers union. According to reports, the former KNUT Sec-Gen is the protagonist of the new teachers union. On his part, Wilson Sossion has disconnected himself from the reports saying that he left KNUTand he is not interested […]