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Join Our Telegram Group The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has claimed that the decision of the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms (PWPER) to deviate from the initial plan of implementing the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) that had guided the curriculum for five years without considering its recommendations was a mistake. According to […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Ministry of Education (MoE) is set to build 8,000 new laboratories for Junior Secondary Schools (JSSs) across the country in a bid to ensure that the implementation of the new Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) is a success. It has been approximated that the government is set to allocate Kes. 10 billion […]
Join Our Telegram Group According to reports, a debt of Kes. 6 billion and the delayed release of the school’s distribution list is why the supply of textbooks for Grade 7 learners has not been completed, several weeks after schools reopened. The delayed release of the report issued by the Presidential Working Party on Education […]
The Education Taskforce has recommended a review of the Teachers Service Commission’s powers and supported the merger of institutions of higher learning and the strengthening of middle-level colleges. It has been revealed that curling the Commission’s powers is among the Presidential Working Party on Education Reform’s (PWPER) recommendations in its second interim report. As a […]
The Government through the Cabinet Secretary for Education Ezekiel Machogu has abolished morning and evening preps for learners in a move set to give them enough rest. CS Machogu said that learners should not be asked to report to class before the break of dawn and end school activities before dusk. He added saying that […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has ordered all school headteachers and principals to report to their various working stations on the 16th of January 2023. Public and private schools are to reopen for the first term of the 2023 academic calendar on the 23rd of January 2023 with Form One and Grade 7 learners reporting […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has trained 60,000 secondary school teachers on the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) who are going to handle the pioneer CBC class in Junior Secondary School (JSS). The Chairperson of the Commission Jamleck Muturi revealed that around 229,000 primary school teachers have been trained on the CBC. “As we prepare for the […]
Heads of Institutions (HOIs) across the country have praised the Head of State for doing away with the delocalization policy that led to the mass transfer of teachers from their home counties. The head teachers termed the policy as punitive and that it had led to the deaths of many of their colleagues and even […]
Grade 6 learners who completed their Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) on Wednesday are going to be domiciled in primary schools. This means that primary school teachers are now set to teach in the junior secondary school level (JSS) specifically in Grades 7, 8 and 9 starting January 2023. According to the Presidential Working […]
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has revealed that it will focus on recruiting teachers for primary schools in the New Year’s recruitment drive. In its preliminary report, the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms (PWPER) reforms recommended the hiring of 30,000 additional teachers for the Junior Secondary School level. The recruitment drive is set to […]
The Deputy Speaker to the National Assembly, Gladys Boss Shollei had implored the government to let grade 6 learners stay in primary school. According to the Competence-Based Curriculum (CBC), Grade Six learners are supposed to join Junior secondary schools which are domiciled in secondary schools. There are more than 1.6 Million Grade 6 learners who […]
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 […]