2025 Intake Open University of Kenya
2025 Intake Open University of Kenya

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Embrace Human Rights Clubs to fix indiscipline in schools

As various state and non-state education actors express disappointment with the negative culture of student indiscipline cropping up in secondary schools across the country, it equally saddens me watching our young and brilliant school...

AGRIBUSINESS: Which way coffee sector?

The coffee industry in Kenya used to be regulated and controlled by the government before it was liberalized in the 1990s, following pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Before its liberalization, the government regulated...

Kenya to bear another painful sting of climate change in 2022

The sharp edges of climate change have continued to bruise my country Kenya. Every part of the East African country is now feeling the pains of the switching climatic conditions. It is happening, oblivious of the...

What next after KCSE?

When Form Fours are through with the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE), they feel free like molecules they met in Chemistry. They let a sigh of relief and say: "Good riddance!" In the whole...

Why women’s political representation matters

Data on politics and governance has continued to paint the image of women being underrepresented at all levels of decision-making around the globe. Women’s political representation has been dismissed for centuries, even as the debate...

How to Build a Positive Attitude for Personality Development

A positive attitude encompasses seeing the bright side of life, both mentally and emotionally, and choosing to remain optimistic about yourself, your interactions and amidst hard situations. It is remaining hopeful even when there...

Is our children’s future tied to examination grades alone?

Do you remember an instance when one of your primary school teachers beat you up for not scoring an A in their teaching subject? Was it enjoyable? Gauging and tying our children's future on an...

Help KCPE champions join schools they will be selected to

Parents whose children sat for the 2021 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) are now waiting with bated breath to know the secondary schools that will host their children for the next four academic...

Why youths should focus on acquisition of practical skills

Gone are the days when employment was immediately secured within one's first week after graduation from a university, college or tertiary institution. There were days when even Kenyans with form four certificates were sure to...

OPINION: A look at the war in Ukraine

It was hard to read the article by Mike Whitney from February 11, 2022, talking about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It’s hard because in the article he was treading between truth and falsity, between fiction...