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Join Our Telegram Group Mbajone Primary School in Meru County was a perfect stage for uncensored drama after boisterous parents stormed the learning institution, seized two bulls, and slaughtered them alleging that the administration was about to sell the animals. Carrying twigs and singing songs, the about 90 parents defied the area chief and police […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Secretary-General of the Kenya National Union of Teachers, Hon. Wilson Sossion has come out to call for extreme caution from the government while they undertake the central task of reopening schools. Sossion noted, in his blog to The Daily Nation, the importance of the safety and well-being of the students […]
Join Our Telegram Group For many years, teachers have protested to better payment from the Kenyan government. The Kenya National Teachers Union (KNUT) fought hard with the government over this and eventually they succeeded in getting teachers a salary increment. The Salaries and Remuneration Commission struck a deal with teachers on increasing their salaries. However, […]
Thousands of teachers have been astonished after their employer denied those promotions and a salary raise for the second year in a row, citing their membership to the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT).Their colleagues who left KNUT after it clashed with Teachers Service Commission (TSC) last year are jubilating after receiving juicier paycheques this […]
The Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) has requested the teachers employer to include over 103,000 school heads, their deputies and senior teachers in this month’s pay rise as it implements phase four of the 2017-2021 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). The 103,000 teachers were left out last year by the Teacher’s Service Commission (TSC) during […]
Dr. Nancy Macharia has been restored as the Teachers Service Commission CEO for another five-year term. Her previous term expired in the past week and it seems she impressed her employers with how she has handled teachers’ affairs with an iron fist. If you are on the government’s side, it is hard to disagree. The […]
The term for the Teachers’ Service Commission boss term officially ended on Tuesday 30th of June 2020, with plans for a possible reappointment or replacement not communicated yet. His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta has not gazetted her reappointment and even the process of appointing a new TSC CEO has not commenced. It is also not […]
A group of unions for secondary, primary, and university teaching staff have come up with a proposal for students to continue staying at home until as far as November 2021. This group comprises of the University Academic Staff Union (UASU) and Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT). They are both recommending for a little patience […]
The Kenya Union of Post Primary Teachers (KUPPET) Busia branch Executive Secretary Moffat Okisai Omunyin led other teachers in storming and disrupting the official launching of Kenya Women Teachers Association (KEWOTA) in Busia County yesterday Saturday the 15th February 2020. Our sources report that Mr. Okisai with others stormed the KEWOTA meeting to flush out […]
Demands by KUPPET Through the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET), the teachers are demanding a pay increment of up to 70 percent. They are also pushing for the promotion of 90,000 tutors who have remained in their current job groups for nearly 20 years. The most affected as far as promotions are […]
The Kenya National Union of Teachers KNUT members will not get pay rise, this is according to the Teachers Service Commission. TSC says that the above group of teachers will lose all the benefits stipulated in the career progression guidelines. According to reports by the DailyNation, TSC said, “The payroll for the Knut union teachers […]
In Summary: George Magoha is a professor of Urological and Transplant Surgery Prof Magoha would have wished he took music as opposed to STEM The globally renowned academician in Urological and Transplant Surgery, Professor George Magoha currently the Cabinet Secretary of Education has publicly admitted that he wished to have become a musician. The professor […]