The Catholic Church has criticised suggestions that religious education be abolished in schools this is after the Commission for Education and Religious Education chairman Maurice Muhatia said the Catholic Church fully supports the continued teaching of religious education in all educational
Read MoreThe Global Monitoring Report — Education for All 2000-2015 — indicates that more than 40,000 of the 200,000 primary school teachers in public schools (or 20 per cent) do not teach when they are required to. Worse still, the report reveals that some teachers do not understand the c
Read MoreColleges will no longer offer degrees in collaboration with universities, a regulator has said. The Commission for University Education said the two institutions have until next month to end the partnership. The move follows the coming into effect last year of new universities regulati
Read MoreNjoro Girls High school was on Sunday closed after students went on the rampage accusing a Kiswahili teacher for allegedly molesting seven girls sexually. The students were sent home following tension that had piled up after students accused the teacher of molesting them, even taken selfies
Read MoreBetween the year 2012 and 2013, 17 girls dropped out of Nyajanja Secondary School in Kochia, Homa Bay County. This alarmed Mr Samuel Odhiambo Okelo, the school’s principal, who had worked there for hardly two years. He realised the strategy used to discourage girls from teenage s
Read MoreThe Education ministry is on the spot for authorising a lobby group to charge public schools millions of shillings to purportedly help in setting up parents associations. The Kenya National Parents Association was given the go-ahead to conduct elections in primary and secondary schools after
Read MoreEight university satellite campuses in Nairobi County will be closed down within six months for failure to operate within the stipulated regulations, the Commission for University Education (CUE) has said.According to the CUE secretary Prof David Some, the satellite campuses have contravened the U
Read MoreThs in Kenya is unheard of and maybe will never be but in England Budding DJs will be able to use their turntable talents to impress examiners following an overhaul of the country's music curriculum. The booming popularity of electronic music has forced officials to recognise the m
Read MoreMedia schools have been urged to emphasise on work ethics and practices when training students. Speaking during the launch of school of creative arts, film and media studies and department of communication at Kenyatta University, Kenya Editor’s Guild Chairman Linus Kaikai said that comm
Read MoreThe last three decades. Although the university degree is no longer the guaranteed ticket to formal employment, possession of it continues to be a major boost to the recipients social mobility prospects. The political elite, although threatened by the rising unemployment of university
Read MoreAs Education Cabinet secretary Jacob Kaimenyi released 2014 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exam results, several positive aspects came to the fore. The most striking, exam irregularities—which have been a major concern over the years—reduced, indicating that the me
Read MoreA group of senators want some education functions to be devolved to enable governors expand schools. Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale said this would help promote equitable access of education. “Infrastructure development should be the preserve of the county governments. This would
Read MoreMostly we are used to hearing cases of students cheating in Exams all over the world but a court in the US has sentenced 8 former Atlanta school teachers to jail for between one and seven years for cheating in exams. The teachers were found guilty of conspiring to cheat in exams in one of the l
Read MorePolice in Kenya have arrested two University students for posting alarming terror messages on social media. This incident happened only two days after an attack on Garissa University in North Eastern Kenya by Al Shabaab Militants. The terrorists killed 148 students in a siege that lasted
Read MoreThe novelist Virginia Woolf once said that if you want to come up afresh in thousands of minds and books long after you were dead, the way to do it is to start thinking for yourself. Yet this is not exactly what Helene Hegemann seems to have done in her most intriguing debut novel Axolotl
Read MoreLess than seven out of 10 children aged 10-16 years in Kenya have mastered Standard Two literacy and numeracy skills, a study has revealed. The report states that many children across East African are not learning basic literacy and numeracy skills and notes that only two out of 10 pupils in th
Read MoreLearning in some 27 schools with a population of more than 31,000 has been disrupted due to insecurity in Baringo County. According to the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Baringo branch, 18 other institutions have been closed indefinitely in Baringo South and Baringo North sub-countie
Read MoreA BRIGHT FUTURE FOR SOMALI REFUGEES Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between MKU and CfBT Education Trust to facilitate training of 26 refugees from the world’s largest refugee camp .Twenty-six Somalia refugees from the Dadaab Refugee camp will undergo training in Project Management, Pu
Read MoreSince the Jubilee administration took over office,the school children of Kenya have been anxiously waiting for laptops that were promised during its campaign period back in 2013. This will come as a relief to children who have been waiting upto date for the promises to be a reality. The governm
Read MoreFour MA Communication students and a faculty member represented Daystar University at the 10th Global Communication Association Annual Conference held on July 16, 2015 at the Westin Grand Hotel in Berlin, Germany. The students, Stella Mwangi, Jesse L. Masai, Jennifer Wangeci Kanyeki and Sr.
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