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Government Set to Build 8,000 Laboratories for Junior Secondary School

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 […]

KNUT Warns Teachers not to Teach JSS unless they are deployed

Join Our Telegram Group The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has issued on primary school teachers not to teach in Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) unless they have received deployment letters on the same from the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). This piece of information was relayed via a communique signed by Secretary-General Collins Oyuu whereby […]

Ministry of Education Revised 2023 Academic Calendar

Join Our Telegram Group The Ministry of Education (MoE) has issued a circular regarding the academic calendar for the year 2023 dated the 10th of January 2023. RE: MOE.HQS/3/13/3 Date: 10th January, 2023 To; Regional Directors of Education County Directors of Education RE: REVISED SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR 2023 FOR PRE-PRIMARY, PRIMARY, SECONDARY AND TEACHERS TRAINING […]

Schools Banned From Selling Uniforms within their Premises

Trade, Investment, and Industry Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria has revealed his reservations regarding the need for compulsory school uniforms. According to him, school uniforms have almost no impact on the quality of education learners receive. This was revealed during a briefing in Nairobi where Kuria said that there is no need for school uniforms and […]

Baringo County Allocated Kes. 30 Million for Education Sector

Baringo County Government has allocated Kes. 30 Million For the education sector in Vocational Training Colleges (VTCs), tertiary institutions, and secondary schools. According to Governor Benjamin Cheboi, Kes. 18 million is meant for needy students in secondary schools while the remaining Kes. 12 million is to cater for school fees for learners in VTCs and […]

KUPPET Wants Promotion of Classroom Teachers

The Kenya Union of Post–Primary Teachers (KUPPET) has called on the Government to increase the number of teachers to be promoted next year. The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) revealed that it is intending to promote 13, 713 teachers to leadership positions in both primary and secondary schools in a recent advertisement on the 22nd of […]

KNUT Wants C (Plain) Teachers to be posted in Secondary Schools

The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) wants the Teachers Service Commission to consider deploying teachers who attained grade C (Plain) in their national examinations to secondary schools. Currently, the Commission only recruits candidates who attained grade C+ to teach in secondary schools. KNUT Secretary-General Collins Oyuu lauded the government’s move of gathering views from […]

Recruitment of TSC Interns to Happen In January 2023

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is set to recruit primary and secondary school interns in January next year. The Head of State revealed this when he said that intern teachers are part of the 30,000 teachers who are set to be employed in January 2023. President William Ruto spoke on Wednesday the 12 of October […]

KNUT Calls For Government to Adopt Mobile Laboratories in Schools

The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has called for the government to finance the development of mobile laboratories in schools. The Executive Secretary of KNUT for the Nairobi Chapter said that the labs are quite affordable. According to reports, mobile laboratories acquired by the School Equipment Production Unit (SEPU) are priced at around Kshs. […]

Secondary School Teacher Found Dead In Latrine

A secondary school teacher who teaches at Got Kanacha Secondary School located in Suna West, Migori County was found dead in a latrine. According to students in the school. The 32-year-old male teacher had been seen going to the latrine on Tuesday morning but he was not seen again afterwards. “We saw him go to […]

Thousands of Students Sent Home for Fees as Examinations Loom

Thousands of students have been sent home to collect school fees across the country a few days after schools resumed for the third term. This is set to affect the progress of this year’s candidates as they prepare for the upcoming national examinations which are set to start in the coming month. Even though the […]

TSC Set To Post Newly Recruited Teachers between September and January

The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is set to post teachers who were recently recruited to their new schools starting from next month u to the month of January next year. It has been reported that posting letters for teachers recruited as replacements are ready and the process of dispatching them to various TSC Sub-County offices […]