Latest education stories from across Kenya.
Details have recently emerged of a Kenyan secondary school in Kirinyaga County that has a total of 8 teachers with only one student. A form 2 learner was captured in footage shared by Citizen TV at Mugwendi Public Day & Mixed Secondary…
Allegations of political favoritism are stirring up backlash in the ongoing teacher recruitment process by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). Naivasha MP Jane Kihara has stepped forward with serious accusations, claiming the…
Jomvu Member of Parliament, Badi Twalib, has sparked a conversation around the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams with a bold new proposal: setting up private examination centers. His goal? To tackle the stubborn issue…
Parents across Kenya are being urged to verify and update their children’s details on the Social Health Authority (SHA) platform. Health Director General Dr. Patrick Amoth emphasizes that this is not just a routine task but a critical step…
Teacher strikes and soaring school fees are at the heart of the challenges facing Kenya’s education system as seen in the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) results. Out of 958,928 candidates, a troubling 74.5%, or…
The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) has unveiled new measures targeting school buses in a bid to enhance safety of school-going children. In a statement on Wednesday January 15, NTSA said the measures are part of the Draft…
Paul Njoroge defied what looked like insurmountable odds to produce a performance for the records during the 2024 KCSE examinations. Njoroge had scored 288 marks out of the possible 500 marks when he sat for his KCPE in 2016. About eight…
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has introduced a new selection system for teacher promotion interviews, emphasizing two key factors: age and years of service in the current grade. This shift in criteria marks a departure from…
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has successfully concluded its recent teacher recruitment drive, marking a crucial step towards addressing staffing gaps in public schools. Across Kenya, 8,707 teaching positions were advertised,…
Kenyan universities are currently grappling with a severe funding crisis, leaving students in a precarious position. This stems from a recent court ruling that invalidated the student-centered funding model, a system initially designed to…
The Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) has officially announced the minimum academic qualifications for students seeking placement into various post-secondary programs. In a statement on Monday, January 13,…
For many people, a grade of D Minus in a national examination is interpreted as failure. There is really nothing to smile about this grade, which is just shy of the lowest grade of E! But this is the grade that has sent Kipkenyo Member of…
North Imenti MP Rahim Dawood is taking a bold step toward addressing a significant gap in education financing with his proposal to extend Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) loans to Teacher Training College (TTC) students. Speaking at the…
KUPPET is currently facing significant scrutiny over its proposed constitutional amendments, which have sparked a heated debate within the union and beyond. The Kenya Union of Post Primary Teachers (KUPPET) defended these changes despite…
Lecturers at the Technical University of Kenya (TUK) are preparing for a strike scheduled to begin on Tuesday, January 14, 2025, unless their long-standing grievances are addressed. Their frustrations stem from months of unpaid salaries…
It’s barely 2 weeks into the 2025 school year, and Kenyan secondary schools are already being hit with a financial storm. Many principals are facing no choice but to send students home, citing the struggle to operate without crucial…
Education Cabinet Secretary Migos Ogamba officially released the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) results on January 9, 2024, at Mtihani House. While the majority of the 962,512 students who sat for the exams received…
Turkana County is facing a persistent academic crisis, as the region has not produced a single Grade ‘A’ in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) for the past nine years. The last Grade ‘A’ was achieved in 2015 by Samwel…
The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) has introduced new guidelines for trainee teachers resitting exams under the old curriculum in 2025. In a circular dated January 2, 2025, KNEC instructed principals of Diploma Teacher Training…
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has invited teachers working in primary schools to apply for jobs in junior secondary schools. The TSC says that the primary teachers who are currently serving under permanent and pensionable in…
The Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) has announced that its portal for the Kenya Accountants and Secretaries National Examinations Board (KASNEB) is open for students to access tuition and exam financing. In a statement on Monday,…
161 students who were schooling in Kenya’s national schools scored a the lowest mean grade E. The results produced by the students has left many puzzled as to how they could have managed to score the lowest grade in national schools that…
Hardly does one come across stories of siblings who have sat KCSE national exams together. What’s even rarer are cases of parents and their children sitting the same exams. In the 2024 session, one such case was reported from Homa Bay…
Merishaw School in Kajiado County, known for being a boy-child empowerment centre, has earned bragging rights after posting a stellar performance in the KCSE 2024 National Exams. The school has toppled national heavyweights in the exams,…
