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About 5,397 schools are yet to upload their 2020 from one selection lists onto the National Education Management Information System, Nemis. This is according to the latest data from the Education Ministry. This mostly affects the Sub County and Private schools whose selection was done manually. The list detailing the school’s name and location indicates … Read more
Education Cabinet Secretary Professor George Magoha has said schools should be reopened this year as opposed to January next year, 2021. The CS said this while appearing before the Departmental Committee on Education, today, for a status update on Measures for safe reopening of schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “We have to ask ourselves what … Read more
The Ministry of Education is carrying out a schools’ preparedness assessment programme ahead of reopening. Ministry of education officials will be visiting individual schools to see if schools are ready for reopening amid the covid-19 pandemic. Visiting officials will use this guide during the assessment process. See here; Reopening of schools; Education Ministry releases final … Read more
The fate of this year’s Nyanza Region Kenya Music Festivals regional workshop remains unknown after the Ministry of Education and local Teachers Service Commission (TSC) Officials sent conflicting directives. Teachers were expected to assemble at Kisii school on Tuesday ahead of the official opening of the training on Wednesday. According to an invitation letter sent … Read more
Over the last few days a feature that the national ‘treasury has released Sh11.2 billion free education cash’ to schools, for this financial year, has hit the social media platforms by a storm. According to the feature (headlined; ‘Treasury Releases Sh11.2bn Free Education Cash. After Push by kuppet, Kenya Union of Post Primary Education), the … Read more
The government has contracted Rivatex East Africa for the production of 24 million face mask to be given to learners ahead of schools’ reopening in September. Education Cabinet Secretary Professor George Magoha who spoke today at Rivatex said plans are underway to ensure that masks are delivered to all schools by August. The masks will … Read more
The ministry of education is working on transport logistics for learners as the reopening date for schools draws closer. In what is seen as a detailed plan to minimize interaction of learners with the general public, the ministry has instructed County Directors of Education, CDEs, to collate data on number of school buses available; countrywide. … Read more
The selection exercise for the 2020 form one selection will be done in December, 2019 at designated venues across all the regions. This is according to a Circular by the Education Permanent Secretary Dr. Belio Kipsang. “The Regional Launch for the 2019 Extra-county, County and Sub county Form One Selection exercise will take place on … Read more
All public schools are set to receive free desks from a government desk manufacture project which will cost taxpayers Sh1.96 billion. This is after the government realized that there was an acute shortage of desks in the public schools. According to Education Cabinet Secretary, George Magoha, Sub-County Education Director in conjunction with the area Deputy … Read more
The latest education news- The government has disbursed Sh7.5 billion to secondary schools to help in the administration of the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examinations set to kick off on Friday. Education Cabinet Secretary Prof George Magoha announced that the funds, which translate to 50 percent of the total capitation balances, hit the … Read more
The Ministry of Education has directed schools to clear monies owed to the Postal Corporation. The Ministry notes that most schools have not been paying for the postal boxes through which they receive mails and parcels. The Principal Secretary in the Ministry, Dr. Bellio Kipsang, says the non payment prompted the Postal Corporation to formally … Read more
A group of unions is proposing that learners to continue staying at home for longer, citing the ‘unsafe’ school environment due to the current covid-19 pandemic. The group comprised of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) and Universities Academic Staff Union (Uasu) wants the government not to rush into schools’ reopening as it may … Read more
The Ministry of Education through Equity Group Foundation is offering Secondary School Scholarships in 110 targeted Sub-Counties and fifteen (15) urban centres with informal settlements, to poor and vulnerable children from financially constrained backgrounds and who attained 280 marks and above in 2019 KCPE. For affirmative action, candidates who are Orphans and/or from Vulnerable Communities … Read more
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. The Ministry now says disbursements of funds to public schools will be entirely via Nemis. Whereas the system has always been used for secondary schools, the scenario has … Read more
The latest Education News– Education Cabinet Secretary Professor George Magoha has reminded examinations centre managers to uphold precautions against malpractises throughout the examination period. Prof Magoha warned the officials manning the exams against lowering their guard in monitoring the conduct of the exams at the tail end of the KCPE tests that winds up today. … Read more
The government will construct a modern boarding primary school as part of its commitment to improve education standards in Turkana county by constructing modern primary schools and ECDEs. The National Drought Management Authority(NDMA) is at advanced stages of constructing a modern boarding mixed primary school at Urum, Loima sub county that will ensure pupils from … Read more