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Join Our Telegram Group The Cabinet Secretary for Education Ezekiel Machogu has urged public universities in Kenya to stop relying solely on tuition fees and government funding. According to Machogu, these source of revenue is becoming unreliable. Machogu called on the institutions to find other methods of funding in order for them to stay afloat. […]
Join Our Telegram Group Egerton University dons have threatened to go on strike over financial issues through the Universities Academic Staff Union (UASU). This was after the institution decided to issue layoff notifications in December last year. Grace Kibue, the secretary of UASU Egerton, and Mwaniki Ngare the Chairperson of UASU Egerton said that the […]
Join Our Telegram Group University lecturers have expressed their frustrations with the government’s failure to consider some of their demands before implementing the 100% transition from primary to secondary school. Universities and other institutions of higher learning are undergoing a crisis with the looming mass admissions in 2023. Dons have revealed that institutions of education […]
The Universities Academic Staff Union (UASU) has blamed the Treasury for late payments of salaries while they have also complained that some universities do not remit mandatory deductions. Late distribution of capitation funds from the National Treasury has strained public universities making it difficult to pay the teaching staff and the non-teaching staff their previous […]
The University of Nairobi (UoN) has suffered a huge blow after the High Court of Kenya stopped the institution from effecting major changes that Vice-Chancellor Stephen Kiama had announced. Today the 22nd of July 2021, Justice Maureen Onyango granted conservatory orders after the Universities’ Academic Staff (UASU) filed a lawsuit. Justice Onyango certified the case […]
All secondary school teachers will have to undergo a one-year mandatory post-graduate diploma in teaching before getting licensed to teach. According to the new proposals that the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) have outlined, all university graduates aspiring to be teachers will have to undergo a post-graduate diploma in education. Widespread reports indicate that the Commission […]