Your business needs a backup; here’s why
By Brian Mallari
Worrying about losing data isn’t something you have to lose sleep over if you have an active data backup strategy. March 31 is World Backup Day and there’s no better time to...
Integrating traditional medicine in health systems key to attaining UHC
By Harriet Ng’ok
Inadequate access to and cost of modern medicines and drugs to treat and manage diseases in middle- and low-income countries, especially in Africa, may have contributed to the widespread use of traditional...
Junior Secondary anticipated challenges and suggested considerations
The Kenyan Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC), which started its implementation almost eight years ago, culminated in Grade 6 first Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) in 2022.
The graduates will join another level of 3 years,...
Why Open Learning Model is not a silver bullet in itself
Kenya's higher education system is facing significant challenges, including inadequate funding, limited access to quality education, and a lack of skilled workforce to support the country's economic growth.
In order to address these challenges, there...
On the burning of schoolbooks after examinations
Pupils of the 2022 examination class of Forest View Academy in Nairobi lit a fire to burn their books after the class eight national examinations. One girl fell into the fire. She received first-degree...
Why students should embrace career education and guidance
Most people spend almost half a century working for a living; some work throughout their lives.
Just imagine, for instance, how one feels to spend the whole time doing something they dislike or even hate...
On modern-day slavery in the Gulf
According to a study by Abu Dhabi Dialogue, a forum on migrant labor, the number of domestic workers surges each year. This is because thousands of new domestic workers head to work in the...
OPINION: How ambassadors can be Kenya’s Bottom-Up Economic Model pillars
President William Ruto is busy constituting his government, and so far, he has chosen his cabinet; the PS nominees have been shortlisted, and other departments shall follow suit.
One of the other departments that President...
The impact of Mental Health Training on teachers
By its very nature, teaching is a rewarding and challenging profession with high-stress levels.
If teachers are not supported and trained to cope with these, teaching can become an exhausting and challenging job that negatively...
Patient autonomy and family dynamics: The bane of consent in the medical world
On 12th January this year, Advocate Fidel Mwaki shared on his status an interesting article titled “The ethical dilemma in treatment consents during critical care emergencies”.
The same was published in one of the dailies...