Education

HERE IS A LIST OF COUNTY SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN MANDERA COUNTY, THEIR KNEC CODES, TYPE, CLUSTER AND CATEGORY:
County secondary schools in Kenya form the third tier after national and extra-county schools respectively.
Most of Kenyan learners are absorbed by these schools.
Admission to county schools is done online by the Ministry of Education.
They are either mixed or single-sex.
Here is a list of county schools found in Mandera County

HERE IS A LIST OF COUNTY SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN GARISSA COUNTY, THEIR KNEC CODES, TYPE, CLUSTER AND CATEGORY:
County secondary schools in Kenya form the third tier after national and extra-county schools respectively.
Most of Kenyan learners are absorbed by these schools.
Admission to county schools is done online by the Ministry of Education.
They are either mixed or single-sex.
Here is a list of county schools found in Garissa County

EXAMINE CHILDREN IN MOTHER TONGUE THE WORLD BANK SUGGESTS
KISWAHILI TAILS IN THE LIST OF PREFERENCE
According to a report by the World Bank, Kiswahili and English are not the best-suited languages to determine the development of children.
Although these are the official languages in Kenya, the report suggests that mother tongue is better placed when it comes to determining the development of a child before s/he joins school.
Therefore assessments of children in either Kiswahili or English may not fully depict a clear picture of the child’s progress.
The report also reveals that when a child is growing up, s/he is likely to grasp the language that the primary caregiver (the mother) speaks- the first language, L1 also known as the child’s mother tongue.
This means that these children are less likely to get exposed to English since most of the neighbours speak in the child’s mother tongue.
The report’s finding is based on a study which was conducted in Homabay and Kisumu on September 2015.

WHAT IF DR AMINA MOHAMMED WAS RIGHT?
According to Dr Obura, Education key stakeholders have already embraced competitive national exams even though they do not want to be associated with the idea given that they have promising “manna and quails” all along.
Our mega concern is the fact that education authorities have not yet revealed a standardized assessment method which will be used at Grade six to select learners into secondary schools.
Dr Amina Mohammed’s reign at the Ministry of Education was never welcome given the high par that had already been set by her predecessor Dr Fred Matiang’ i.
The major reason was her calm personality and leadership style which greatly contrasted with Dr Matiang’ i’s bulldozer approach.
Her unwelcome announcement that Kenya is not ready for the CBC is proof enough of her political naivety.
How can you admit that a policy has failed when the government has already convinced Kenyans to embrace it?
If you critically analyze Dr Amina Mohammed’s transfer to a lesser docket- Sports, it is easy to connect to the time she publicly declared that Kenya was not well prepared to roll out the Competence-Based Curriculum.
What if Dr Amina is right?

Following TSC’s last week advertisement on teacher intern recruitment, many interested teachers have had questions on online application mode. The following is a friendly step by step guide on how to do the application online to beat the fast-approaching deadline of the 23rd October 2019