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Join Our Telegram Group A proposal tabled in parliament could see private schools paying Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination fees. However, the proposal is yet to be approved but once approved, parents with children attending private schools could start paying national examination fees for their children […]
Join Our Telegram Group Dagoreti MP Mrs Beatrice Elachi is concerned about the high number of informal schools in her area of jurisdiction. While attending a public forum, she wondered why there were schools with only fifty to seventy students and asked whether this was the right situation for the school-going children. In a recent […]
Join Our Telegram Group The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has called on the government to assist private schools in building enough classrooms with the transition of learners to Junior Secondary School looming. According to KUPPET’s Secretary-General Akello Misori, the construction of classrooms and the preparations for transition should be elaborate to […]
Private schools have received praise from the Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof George Magoha for their efforts in building classrooms that will help the new Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). CS Magoha revealed that private schools have built 1,200 classrooms while he went through Mudasa Academy and Golden Elites Kisumu schools where he inspected the newly constructed […]
The Kenya Private Schools Association (KPSA) national chairperson Mutheu Kasanga has revealed that she is against the reintroduction of corporal punishment in schools. The reintroduction of corporal punishment or rather caning has been suggested on many occasions by some stakeholders in the education fraternity including the Cabinet Secretary for Education Prof George Magoha. Kasanga implored […]
Schools have experienced a surge in enrolment as a large number of students have reported including those from private schools. As expected, students and teachers alike are struggling with the challenge of social distancing. Yesterday on January 4, 2021, as schools received students, a number of students did not report to schools. Some schools staggered […]
Public and private schools are reopening on Monday as announced by the Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Education Prof George Magoha. The government-released-funds will cover free education and was expected to reach schools on Thursday 8, 2020. Private schools have asked parents to pay school fees, with some asking for full payment, before the […]
The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has implored the Ministry of Education together with the Ministry of Health to ensure that all students receive three re-usable masks each with schools likely to reopen in October. “The government should ensure every student has a mask that will be bought by the government of […]
Ugandan school proprietors under the National Private Educational Institutions Association (NPEIA), are questioning the Ministry of Education’s motives of going to their institutions without notifying them. They are protesting the abrupt decision of the government to inspect their school premises without prior information. The secretary to the ministry’s Covid-19 committee, Mr. Hassadu Kirabira, on behalf […]
The coronavirus outbreak has suffocated businesses that were already struggling, with entrepreneurs now rethinking their strategies to reinvest in other ventures. Some of the hardest-hit are proprietors of private schools who have outstanding loans and already gave their buildings to banks as collateral security, according to the Federation for Non-State Education Institutions (Fenei) national secretary, […]
The government through Microfinance support Centre has injected 5 billion Uganda shillings into the Uganda Teachers’ Cooperative Savings and Credit Union as part and parcel of its commitment to improving their welfare, especially during this pandemic. The Uganda Teachers Cooperative Savings and credit union is an umbrella to several teachers saving groups across the country. […]
Amid the looming uncertainty of whether education institutions will open or not, some commercial banks have already threatened to take on the property that school owners mortgaged as collateral security for loans. Mr. Patrick Kaboyo, the secretary for Federation of Non–state Education Institutions (FENEI) said the majority received loans from commercial banks in order to […]