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Augustine Oduor And Mike Kihaki

CS: 46,000 intern teachers to apply afresh

Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba said the intern teachers will have to apply afresh to be considered for permanent and pensionable terms.

CS: 46,000 intern teachers to apply afresh

Learning in varsities paralysed as details emerge on offer unions rejected

Learning in varsities paralysed as details emerge on offer unions rejected

By 2 months ago

Universities' mess deepens over CBA, new funding plan

Universities' mess deepens over CBA, new funding plan

By 2 months ago

Academic programmes, music festival affected by Gen Z protests

Academic programmes, music festival affected by Gen Z protests

By 3 months ago

Ruto snubs Machogu, postpones reopening of schools

Ruto said move was informed by prevailing heavy rains and flooding. Education stakeholders laud the decision, say it will give them time to prepare for the new term.

By 6 months ago

Ruto snubs Machogu, postpones reopening of schools

Ruto snubs Machogu, postpones reopening of schools

Ruto said move was informed by prevailing heavy rains and flooding. Education stakeholders laud the decision, say it will give them time to prepare for the new term.

By 6 months ago

Ruto snubs Machogu, postpones reopening of schools

Ruto snubs Machogu, postpones reopening of schools

Ruto said move was informed by prevailing heavy rains and flooding. Education stakeholders laud the decision, say it will give them time to prepare for the new term.

By 6 months ago

Ruto snubs Machogu, postpones reopening of schools

Ruto snubs Machogu, postpones reopening of schools

Ruto said move was informed by prevailing heavy rains and flooding. Education stakeholders laud the decision, say it will give them time to prepare for the new term.

By Augustine Oduor and Mike Kihaki 6 months ago

Ruto snubs Machogu, postpones reopening of schools

Nightmare: No space, no money for extra Form One admissions

Being the last cohort of the 8-4-4 education system, all the students must transit to Form One.

By Augustine Oduor and Mike Kihaki 1 year ago

Nightmare: No space, no money for extra Form One admissions

National exam papers won't be picked at once to prevent cheating

Examination officials will no longer pick all the day's examination papers in the morning. Ministry officials blame the police as the weakest links in examination administration.

By Augustine Oduor and Mike Kihaki 1 year ago

National exam papers won't be picked at once to prevent cheating

Revealed: Vice-chancellors bag allowances beyond approved limits

In some instances, total allowances are more than a VC's basic monthly salary.

By Augustine Oduor and Mike Kihaki 1 year ago

Revealed: Vice-chancellors bag allowances beyond approved limits

Teachers issue new pay demand as unions seek CBA talks resumption

Kuppet and KNUT argue it's time to return to the negotiation table to give teachers the best pay deal. Push comes just days after President Ruto announced a pay rise for all public servants.

By Augustine Oduor and Mike Kihaki 1 year ago

Teachers issue new pay demand as unions seek CBA talks resumption

Intrigues of missing school reform report

The report is expected to give direction on a number of issues as far as education is concerned, from primary to university education, all aimed at improving the sector.

By Augustine Oduor and Mike Kihaki 1 year ago

Intrigues of missing school reform report

Education reforms: Three weeks later, where is final Presidential task force report?

It is not clear why the final report has not been made public, three weeks after the Prof Munavu-led task force's tenure ended.

By Augustine Oduor and Mike Kihaki 1 year ago

Education reforms: Three weeks later, where is final Presidential task force report?

Hot air: MPs fail to table evidence on 2022 national exams cheating claims

Machogu says some of the falsehood was peddled by competing high school principals. CS terms KCSE cheating claims as unfounded and meant to malign the integrity of exams.

By Augustine Oduor and Mike Kihaki 1 year ago

Hot air: MPs fail to table evidence on 2022 national exams cheating claims

Shock of 124,105 teachers stuck in same job group for five years

New Kuppet report says Sh20 billion needed to promote teachers this financial year. According to the findings, many more are due for promotion as per TSC rules.

By Augustine Oduor and Mike Kihaki 1 year ago

Shock of 124,105 teachers stuck in same job group for five years

Senate Bill seeks to compel all 47 counties to establish Tvet colleges

Education stakeholders are currently in Naivasha for a meeting convened by the Senate to establish a legal framework for the County Vocational Education and Training Bill, 2022.

By Augustine Oduor and Mike Kihaki 1 year ago

Senate Bill seeks to compel all 47 counties to establish Tvet colleges

Teachers get Sh14b medical cover

All teachers in active service aged 18 years to 65 years will benefit from the cover. Seven-day rule struck so they will get treatment anytime.

By Augustine Oduor and Mike Kihaki 1 year ago

Teachers get Sh14b medical cover

Grade 7 learners will not move to high school, new CBC report says

Kuppet and Knut had been pulling in different directions on where the junior secondary learners should be domiciled.

By Augustine Oduor and Mike Kihaki 1 year ago

Grade 7 learners will not move to high school, new CBC report says

The swirling coffee berry angst

Rich; the dark aromatic swirl of a stir and in most cases the person stirring it. Rich also is the coffee trader who has put up a Sh10 billion bond to sell this precious commodity overseas.

By Wangui Wambugu 8 years ago

The swirling coffee berry angst

The hard reality of feminism today

The feminist movement is one of the best forums the world has seen. It continues to attract good and bad press as it morphs.

By Wangui Wambugu 8 years ago

The hard reality of feminism today

Parents, here’s why you matter

Watching parents and their children is a life lesson, the personal yet universal way that they deal with words, gestures and hugs. That trademark tantrum at the supermarket which parenting experts charged a fortune to help you avoid but you are on the fiftieth.

By Wangui Wambugu 8 years ago

Parents, here’s why you matter

Modern African woman in self-denial

In psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time, or is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas or values.

By Wangui Wambugu 9 years ago

Modern African woman in self-denial

Kenya, the beautiful running nation

My Geography, History and Civics (GHC) lessons were interesting. I remember learning to rub a sheet of paper on my hair then tracing maps on its oily surface.

By Wangui Wambugu 9 years ago

Kenya, the beautiful running nation

So many questions in Kenyans' minds, but few answers

Not because corruption is new, but with time it has become so boldly random and thorough it is scary. It is even called grand corruption these days.

By Wangui Wambugu 9 years ago

So many questions in Kenyans' minds, but few answers

All we care for is justice, what of truth?

Every Kenyan who survived the Post-Election Violence of 2007 has a story.

By Wangui Wambugu 9 years ago

All we care for is justice, what of truth?

Give way for the new African woman

This modernity is mainly everything the African woman is not, was not and will never be. Most of us are raised by the generation that embraced the colonial system.

By Wangui Wambugu 9 years ago

Give way for the new African woman

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