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Join Our Facebook Page The 2020 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) candidates are set to join Form One July 2021 once the selection has been done. Top officials from the Ministry of Education are meeting soon to finalize the plans for the selection of Form Ones this year. A broad-sectoral team is in Naivasha […]
Join Our Facebook Page The Ministry of Education on Friday 7th,2021, released a press statement on the reopening of schools. “As you are aware, President Uhuru Kenyatta announced on May,1st,2021, that the opening of schools for the third term of the 2020 Academic calendar will go on as scheduled” reads part of the statement. The […]
Join Our Facebook Page The Kenya National Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has issued demands they want the Ministry of Education to be meet as schools reopen this coming Monday. Akello Misori KUPPET secretary-general led KUPPPET in the address implored the Ministry of Education to republish the term dates for parents and school […]
The Ministry of Education has issued an official announcement regarding the Elimu Scholarship program for the year 2021. The Ministry of Education’s announcement is as below. Republic of Kenya MINISTRY OF EDUCATION STATE DEPARTMENT OF EARLY LEARNING AND BASIC EDUCATION ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE ELIMU SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME – FOR THE YEAR 2020/21 The Ministry of Education […]
The Cabinet Secretaries for Education and Health Ministries have announced conditions that could lead to the postponement of the reopening of schools on the 10th of May 2021. While appearing on an aired interview on Citizen TV on the 26th of April 2021, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said that analysis of the COVID-19 positivity […]
Primary school teachers who teach in Grade 1, 2, and 3 shall attend a workshop under Tusome Early Grade Reading Activity which is a program of the Ministry of Education that supports English and Kiswahili literacy. The Ministry via a message sent to targeted teachers said that the training will include all teacher in public […]
The Ministry of Education has denied favoring public schools in the recently released KCPE examinations. This follows questions that owners of private schools raised concerning the sudden drop in performance of their schools in the 2020 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) results. Private schools have been performing better over the years than public schools. […]
The Ministry of Education is in the process of making changes in the Basic Education Act which will enable it to recruit school managers in all public learning schools. The Ministry is of the opinion that school managers will help headteachers to run schools more efficiently. The Ministry’s proposals could be a seismic shift from […]
The Ministry of Education Principal Secretary Dr. Julius Jwan has issued a circular to County Directors of Education on how Form Four students will travel in and out of locked down counties after KCSE examinations. In a circular dated Friday the 9th of April, 2021, county directors of education have been directed to work in […]
The Ministry of Education has warned seven national schools over interfering with the Form One selection exercise that is set to happen soon. Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof George Magoha said that within the next two weeks the 2020 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) shall be released. CS Magoha said that multiple-choice papers have […]
Last week, a non-existent school was discovered in a parliamentary report and is among four institutions that a publisher was not able to trace in 2018. This revealed a long-standing corruption scandal that education officials have stolen public funds using ghost schools. The publisher had been contracted to supply books and reported to the Ministry […]
The Ministry of Education has opened applications to Teachers Training Colleges till the 20th of April 2021. However, the Ministry has not lowered entry grades. This has dented hopes of students who did not manage to attain the minimum entry requirements but thought the government could lower the entry requirements. The Basic Education Permanent Secretary […]