The recent appointement of parastatal cheifs by President has been received by mixed reactions especially by young people. It has sparked debate on whether the president will give young people chances of employment as he promised during his presidential campaigns in 2013. University students fa
Read MoreResearchers have raised doubts about the health and educational benefits of the ongoing school deworming programme. The programme with six million school children beneficiaries in Kenya and 95 million globally is mainly supported by the World Bank, World Health Organisation and the Gates Foundation.
Read MoreHavard University has once again topped the world rankings released by the Center for World University Rankings. The Ivy League School is followed by Stanford and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Center's annual rankings are based on eight criteria: quality of education, a
Read MoreThe 1,089 teachers who have been camping at the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) demanding transfer from North Eastern over insecurity have called off their protests.This followed an agreement that Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) takes over talks with TSC regarding their demands. K
Read MoreOver 4,000 candidates who hoped to join the teaching profession have had their hopes dashed as colleges concluded this year’s selection.Some 9,731 out of 13, 873 applicants will now join the 24 primary teacher training colleges. Those selected are expected to report to the respective
Read MoreTrue to the words of Scott Hamilton “The only disability in life is a bad attitude”. Mr. Bernard Chiira, or Ben as many know him, has lived his life nothing short of the astounding truth in that phrase. Ben was born with Scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine and Osteogenesis Impe
Read MoreEthnic politics is slowly rearing its ugly head in institutions of higher learning, with Moi University being the latest casualty, after two rival groups clashed over the forthcoming student elections. This led to the closure of the institution on Monday evening after a confrontation
Read MoreTeachers will have to wait longer before they can toast their court victory after the Teachers Service Commission on Wednesday said that it will appeal against the 50 to 60% salary increase awarded to its 288,060 workers on Tuesday. The higher pay was awarded by the Employment and Labo
Read MoreTeachers have been warned against signing forms from the Teachers Service Commission for a proposed medical scheme. The scheme was procured irregularly to fleece teachers, said Mombasa County Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers Secretary Linnet Kamadi. “From tomorrow,
Read MoreAfter a summer in Kenya, Melissa Berry return to school forever changed because she taught in an orphanage, she could no longer ignore the staggering statistics of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. “To me, those numbers had bright faces, wide smiles and little red sweaters,” Melissa recal
Read MoreA bus carrying secondary school students was attacked by bandits near Loruk in Baringo County.The bus, which was hired by Nginyang Hish School, was ferrying the students who had attended music festivals in Kabarnet but no casualties were reported in the incident. The bus was in a convoy of v
Read MoreLighting in rural Kenya is still poor even as the government lowered the connection fee for electricity in the country. However, at Olopito Village in Narok North Constituency a form two student at Musaria Secondary School in Kericho has innovated lamps using old discarded bulbs to provide ligh
Read MorePoverty Kenya is the victim of extreme and endemic poverty. Half of its population lives below the poverty line, on an average of US$ 2 or less per day. Stark disparities in income and standards of living – plus a steady rise in inequalities – are rendered all the more striking i
Read MoreBut if there was nothing to make the 26-year-old petroleum chemistry student stand out from his classmates, the story of how he came to be at his graduation ceremony at the American University of Nigeria in the northeastern city of Yola, is one of sheer courage and determination. Last November, Umar
Read MoreThree public universities have been forced to recruit lecturers from foreign countries to meet fresh quality demands by the Engineers Board of Kenya. The board is dissatisfied with the quality of graduates from public institutions and this has prompted it to suspend nearly all engineeri
Read MoreOn her first night on the Kenyan Mugie Ranch, Heather D’Angelo heard an unsettling roar outside of her tent. She waited for growls to become faint as she sat paralyzed and muted by fear. “I couldn’t even shed a tear because the lion would hear my tear drop, that’s how scare
Read MoreIn the past institutions of higher learning have only been known for strikes and a bit of violence especially when the students thought that there rights were being infringed or when one of them was killed or hurt. The far they would go was to stone cars and get involved with running battles with
Read MoreStudents who survived the April terrorism attack on Garissa University College were on Wednesday received at Moi University in Eldoret where they will complete their studies. Deputy vice-chancellor in charge of students’ affairs, Prof Nathan Ogechi, said they expected 650 student
Read MoreUS President Barack Obama has challenged Kenya to empower women and girls in order to achieve its development dream faster. The growth of Kenya’s economy, he said yesterday, will be greatly determined by girl education and employment of women. In his address to Kenyans from the
Read MoreFormer United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has challenged African countries to stop armed and political conflicts and embark on strategies to improve higher education in order to pave way for economic development and social progress.Annan was addressing the African Higher Education Summit, t
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