Kenya plans to bar its universities from offering diplomas and certificates courses,starving them of a key income stream as it seeks to streamline higher education to boost quality. Universities must now concentrate on their core business – degrees – leaving colleges to handle lower qual
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Read MoreMrs Ogot, who was Kenya’s first woman assistant minister, breathed her last at the Nairobi Hospital Wednesday morning. She was elected MP for Gem in 1985 after a two-year stint as nominated Kanu MP to succeed the late Horace Ongili Owiti who had been assassinated, becoming the second elected w
Read MoreThe Teachers Service Commission in Embu County has embarked on an ambitious programme to rehabilitate teachers hooked by alcoholism. TSC county director Lillian Mwangi said her office had already taken six teachers suffering from severe drunkenness for rehabilitation at Mathare hospital whi
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Read MoreFive dormitories were on Tuesday burnt in five secondary schools in Kilifi County in a night of destruction that has plunged education in the area into uncertainty. In what appeared to be a well-calculated and coordinated plan, three dormitories were burnt to ashes while two were partly con
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Read MoreWith the current wave of insecurity in the country and terror scares directed to various bulidings and institutions,their has been increased alarm and panic even over very trivial events like explosions of transformers. This recently saw the panic at UON- Kikuyu campus that led to the deat
Read MorePolice are holding a Form Three student after he allegedly confessed to being a member of the Al-Shabaab militant group. The suspect (whose name we have withheld because he is a minor), a student at St Ignatius Mukumu Boys’ High School in Kakamega, is said to have confessed to his teachers tha
Read MoreTension is high at Moi University’s Law School in Eldoret after students refused to leave the institution after it was closed down. Anti-riot police were deployed to the institution and spent the better part of the morning keeping the students at bay after they vowed not to leave until
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The ongoing primary school heads conference in Mombasa was on Tuesday marred by protests as teachers demanded implementation of their pay increase. Teachers Service Commission (TSC) chairwoman Lydia Nzomo was under fire as the agitated teachers shouted her down for not implementing their
Read MoreLosing his job is perhaps the best thing that happened to 31 year-old Caleb Karuga. The former TV journalist runs a flourishing agribusiness venture. He says he quit his degree course in IT midway when he realized it wasn’t his passion. “I am a half-baked graduate,’’ he says.
Read MoreThe Teachers Service Commission (TSC) wants a case challenging its authority to appoint head teachers dismissed. A TSC lawyer told the court on Tuesday that the commission was mandated by the constitution to manage teachers and engage in teaching service. Accordingly, TSC said its pr
Read MoreWith the change in the education sector some new laws have been drafted and some old ones scrapped,one such law is the banning of school tution during the hlolidays for school going children. This is due to the fact that experts have recommended that children need time to be children - play and take
Read MoreThe Teachers Service Commission is in crisis talks with senior secretariat staff over the employment of 800 personnel. The 600 teachers and 200 secretariat personnel were hired at the tail-end of the tenure of former commission CEO Gabriel Longoboini. TSC last month appointed Nancy Macha
Read MoreA second institution of higher learning in the northeastern part of the country has been closed indefinitely after the government allegedly failed to provide armed security for the institution. The Kenya Medical Training College Garissa Campus was shut down Saturday. College principa
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