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Education News Today 2023; Get the latest Education News Today Here at the Education Portal. The latest education news making headlines today encompass; President Ruto promises to abolish Helb, set up funding body Ruto promised to abolish Helb and TVET funding and to establish national skills and funding council to connect the two levels in order to provide a credit transfer framework and to support academic progression. The National Education Fund will mobilise grants, bursaries, and scholarships from…

CBC Grade 6 KPSEA To Save KNEC Billions Of Shilling Electronic Marking Of All The Papers CBC GRADE SIX KPSEA TO SAVE KNEC BILLIONS OF SHILLINGS; ELECTRONIC MARKING OF ALL THE PAPERS! 2022 KNEC KPSEA EXAM SAMPLES DOWNLOAD Details have emerged that the Competency-Based Assessment (CBA) will save the government billions of shillings in examination printing, administration, and management. This follows a departure from the outdated KCPE ( Kenya Certificate Of Primary Education) where KNEC contracted teachers to mark…

TSC Promotions Vacancies 2022-2023; Several TSC Promotion/ Administrative Slots up for Grabs as Education Ministry  Reveals How Junior Secondary Schools will be Managed Starting 2023 TSC to Advertise Several Administrative Posts/ Vacancies for Junior Secondary   How Junior secondary schools will be Managed: Junior Secondary Schools to have a head, deputy and senior teachers TSC and Education News Today: Junior secondary schools to have own head, deputy and senior teachers Junior secondary schools, which will start…

Forget Half Term and Condensed Term Dates, Here are the Real Causes of  School Upheavals *THE "KABABA/MTOTO WANGU /KAMAMI/MUM/MAMA/DADII/GENERATION" THAT HAS BEEN BROUGHT UP WITHOUT DISCIPLINE* The "kababa" generation is fully grown up now and they were never taught how to take "NO" for an answer. Always got what they wanted. This is the same group that was burning down schools, now they are out in the world slaughtering each other in the name of love, yet love is kind, love is patient and…

Latest Education News: List of Ghost schools gobbling millions of taxpayers' money in form of FSE funds 2021; Parliament unearths rogue MoE officials using non-existent schools to steal money Last week, a non-existent school was discovered in a parliamentary report and is among four institutions that a publisher was not able to trace in 2018. This revealed a long-standing corruption scandal that education officials have stolen public funds using ghost schools. The publisher had been contracted to supply books…

Education News; Knec starts distributing KCPE and KCSE exam papers, Results are expected in April The Kenya National Examinations Council, KNEC has started distributing examination papers to the designated containers across the 8 regions. This comes at a time when dissatisfied school heads  are complaining about the delayed release of  the Sh15 billion free education funds prompting an earlier closure of schools due to lack of funds. Read also MoH vetted hospitals for Covid-19 free vaccination…

MOE deadline for capturing of learners' details on the Nemis portal for the release of funds  The Ministry of Education gives update on the Nemis portal that is used to capture data for all learners. Latest Education news– Schools have been given up to the end of March so as to capture all learners in the National Education Management Information System, Nemis. Read also TSC list of deployed teachers to secondary schools in 2021 per county (Deployment letters) The Ministry now says disbursements…

Several Teacher Training Colleges, TTCs Stare at Major System Changes as Education Ministry Phases Out Primary Teacher Education Certificate, P1 in Favour of Diploma in Primary Teacher Education (DPTE) Many teacher training colleges that initially offered Primary Teacher Education Certificate (commonly known as P1) will be driven out of business if they  remain adamant and fail to comply with the new rules and regulations introduced by the Ministry of Education The regulations have been introduced after the phasing out…

Tension as KSCE Candidate Succumbs to Covid-19, 10 others test positive Fear has engulfed Lureko Secondary School fraternity located un Mumias West Constituency, Kakamega following the untimely demise of a form four student who died of Covid-19 related complications. Confirming the news, Kakamega County Health Executive Dr Collins Matemba told The Standard that the girl started developing complications while at home. Dr Matemba also confirmed that her parents have also tested positive for Covid-19 and are currently…

While I do concede that I am not perfect, in the process of reforms of the magnitude required to improve service delivery in the education sector, I also recognise that this process is bound to generate resistance if tangible results are to be achieved. My management style which has proved successful over the years is walking about at the point of service delivery.

Confirmed: Tononoka High School Principal Succumbed to Covid-19, Check Out What Education Officials in the County Said about the Incident Fear has gripped Mombasa County residents and their leaders following the demise of Tononoka Secondary School principal where 11 teachers tested positive for the virus a few days ago. Confirming the news, County education chief officer John Musave said that the late Mohammed Khamis took his last breath at the Mombasa Hospital where he was undergoing treatment in the Intensive Care…

List of Public Schools with Confirmed Covid-19 Cases; The following Schools have Reported Covid-19 Infections within Two Weeks The government is starting to feel the heat of Covid 19 in schools barely days after Education CS Professor George Magoha said that the reported cases were a mere drop in the ocean hence not worth the concern. The constant reduction of covid-19 cases for two weeks with a positivity rate of less than 5% prompted the first phase of reopening schools in Kenya. This saw grade four,class…

Mombasa Education County Commissioner has also confirmed the claims to KTN News that the two schools will be opened after two weeks

Fate Sealed! Schools to reopen tomorrow despite pending court order, read the full details below The dice is already cast and learners in grade four, standard eight and form four will resume learning tomorrow as planned despite a pending court order. After CS Magoha announced the resumption of learning for the aforementioned, there arose complaints emanating from various quarters especially parents who felt like the one-week schools reopening notice was too short. The dissatisfaction culminated in a court…

It is no longer breaking news that Kenya is indeed short of over 100, 000 teachers. While appearing before the Senate education committee yesterday, TSC CEO Dr. Nancy Macharia made it clear once more that more funds should be allocated for new recruitment so that the commission can recruit at least 20, 000 new teachers every year to plug the biting teacher shortages.

CS Magoha and Education CAS Zack Kinuthia's Contradicting Remarksover the delayed payment of BOM teachers' salaries

Fresh details have emerged about today’s education stakeholders’ crisis meeting. According to Citizen TV, the nation expects a detailed update touching on crucial changes in schools’ reopening dates.

"The media has made me look like someone who did not go to school. They have made me look like a person who flip-flops; someone who says this today, and says that tomorrow. I want to tell you (journalists) that I am above that kind of nonsense,” said Magoha.

Education CAS Zack Kinuthia Bursts the Bubble: Find Out Who or What is Responsible for the Delayed Payment of BOM Teachers' Salaries The Kenya BoM teachers have been seen suffering since March when the Schools were Closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Pandemic saw all learning institutions closed to avoid the spread of the disease. Since then our BoM teachers have gone without salaries. Last month the government promised to release some cash in a bid to cushion the BoM teachers. This is because many had been…

The Teachers Service Commission, TSC has issued a complete set of rules that will govern the new community-based learning set to be rolled out soon.

If CS Magoha’s latest sentiments are anything to go by, then learners in Kenya may not resume learning in January 2021 as earlier planned.

The much anticipated July 2020 pay rise has been effected by the Teachers Service Commission. However, not all tutors will be smiling all the way to the bank as dreamers put it. Most teachers still have nothing to smile about. Unlike KUPPET, KNUT has never held any fruitful meeting with the teachers’ employer. Most of the engagements have culminated in court battles that leave the union dented.

White smoke is in the offing as tutors put it for teachers employed by school management boards. This is good news for the numerous greuates who have been forced to live a dog's life for over four months now. For the past few weeks, the mainstream media has highlighted the plight of teachers employed by the BOM and finally, someone has paid attention. Confirming the good news, education CAS Zachary Kinuthia said that the ministry has heard the cry of these teachers and realized how hard they have been hit by the…

Newspro media team has authoritatively established a move by key players to force the teachers’ employer, TSC to denounce its pledge to continue paying teachers’ salaries in full until schools reopen in January.

This comes at a time when holiday tuition is outlawed in Kenya. Section 37 of the Basic Education Act, holiday tuition is prohibited and any teacher caught conducting it will pay a fine not exceeding sh 100, 000 and/or face imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year.

Mr. Mathias Mramba, a teacher at Kiruku Primary School has been accused of raping a sixteen-year-old girl for the last two weeks.

Professor George Magoha has ordered all primary and secondary schools to refund school fees for the second and third term to all parents who had paid in time.

In the teaching service, her reputation as an iron lady precedes her for she ruled with an iron fist for the past five years.

KNUT, whose wings have been clipped by the CEO seems to have developed cold feet and does not want to be on the wrong side especially on matters TSC.

Confirming the reports, Mary Monari the hospital superintendent said the incident occurred within the confines of the hospital where the girl was undergoing treatment for Malaria and acute burns.