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Education

Get the latest happenings in the educational institutions from early childhood to tertiary institutions both locally and nationally, also get insights from the ministry of education and other affiliated organizations

Kenyan don earns global recognition

Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology’s (JOOUST) don, Prof. Henry Onderi, has won the Regional Voice of Change Award. Prof. Onderi is among the 34 other Kenyans who got categorized awards from iChange...

Government to employ 3,000 trainers for TVET institutions

The government is set to employ 3,000 trainers for Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) institutions. The Principal Secretary for the State Department of Vocational and Technical Training (VTT), Dr. Margaret Mwakima, said the Ministry...

Cardinal Otunga High School Mosocho on the road to reclaiming former glory

Cardinal Otunga High School Mosocho was established following a request from the then Kisii Diocese Bishop, His Eminence Maurice Cardinal Otunga in 1957. It was meant to host missionaries teaching in the new diocese carved...

Education official urges professionals to support their alma mater

Scholars and academicians have been urged to be good role models to students in their former schools. Ugenya Sub-County Teachers Service Commission (TSC) Director, Bernard Orwasa said that when such professionals support the institutions they...

Moi University medicine lecturers end 77-day strike

Moi University medicine lecturers have called off their strike. This comes after extensive talks with the management. The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) and the State department of University Education and Research...

Why Nyang’acha is at ease with delocalization, four years on

When the Ministry of Education implemented a policy that delocalized school heads a few years back, some liked it while others did not. The move came at a time when most secondary school principals and...

Testing students for drugs gets more support from stakeholders

"Drug testing will be conducted in selected schools with long standing cases of unrest and destruction of school property," Education CS Prof George Magoha said recently. Prof Magoha said anyone suspected to have taken part...

Court pulls CS Magoha backwards over varsity job

The employment and labor relations court has quashed the appointment of Prof Francis Angawa Okere as the DVC Finance, Administration and Planning at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST). In a...

FEATURE: Manga Girls PAG High School ready to roar

The cool and calm Borabu Constituency in Nyamira County is often referred to by locals as "scheme". I identified a biker at Nyansiongo (Kijauri) bodaboda stage. On our way, the evidently proud rider slowed down...

Uganda reopens schools after two-year lull over Covid-19

Uganda reopened schools on 10th January 2022 after a long closure due to Covid-19 outbreak in March 2020. The country's Education and Sports Minister, Janet Kataha Museveni, unveiled the 2022 school calendar during the 28th...