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Litein High School teachers demand transfer over safety fears, mistreatment
Lucy Mumbi  |  Oct 09, 2025

The standoff adds to growing tensions in learning institutions across the country, where teacher welfare and security have increasingly come under scr...

MPs urge Education Ministry to recall students sent home over delayed capitation payments
Lucy Mumbi  |  Oct 08, 2025

MPs said the continued absence of candidates from school threatens their readiness for upcoming national exams.

Education Ministry warns schools forcing pupils to report before 8 am face disciplinary action
Lucy Mumbi  |  Oct 08, 2025

Ogamba admitted that some schools were breaching ministry rules by requiring pupils to report too early, reiterating that official learning hours are...

Parents of Litein Boys take school to court over unexplained damages fees
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Oct 08, 2025

Through their legal representatives, the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) claims that recurring unrest at Litein Boys’ High School has become a financ...

Publishers warn Sh11.4 billion debt may delay Grade 10 textbooks ahead of senior school rollout
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Oct 07, 2025

KPA Chairperson Kiarie Kamau said the debt has affected not only publishers but also authors, distributors, and even the Kenya Revenue Authority, unde...

KNUT urges urgent release of funds, strengthening of school feeding programme in Garissa
Issa Hussein  |  Oct 06, 2025

The union’s Executive Secretary, Abdirizack Hussein, said the prolonged delay has severely disrupted school operations, warning that continued financi...

Schools warn national exams integrity at risk as delayed funds disrupt preparations
Lucy Mumbi  |  Oct 06, 2025

School heads say the delays have crippled operations, leaving institutions unable to purchase essential materials and equipment needed for exam sessio...

Litein Boys High School fines parents Sh69.5 million over violent September unrest damage
Lucy Mumbi  |  Oct 05, 2025

Parents have been directed to deposit the fines into the school’s account by October 6, 2025, to enable repair works to begin before reopening.

TSC urged to review junior secondary teacher management amid curriculum concerns
Lucy Mumbi  |  Oct 05, 2025

The union is pushing for the independence of the Junior Secondary wing or, alternatively, the transfer of JSS to existing secondary schools.

Government considering closing schools implicated in fraud, ghost student enrolment – CS Ogamba
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Oct 04, 2025

CS Julius Ogamba said that the ongoing audit of learners and institutions is now 75 per cent complete. Preliminary results show that around 50,000 stu...

MPs raise concerns as missing Kenya School of TVET title deed hinders school’s operations and reforms
Lucy Mumbi  |  Oct 02, 2025

Documents presented during the session show that the title deed was collected by the Ministry of Education on September 9, 2016, and despite repeated...

Kilifi teacher arrested after pupil dies from alleged corporal punishment
Eastleigh Voice Reporter  |  Oct 02, 2025

According to police reports, the teacher, Ian Tembo, instructed Grade 8 pupils to kneel before punishing them. Some were caned while others were hit o...

Government unveils reforms for Junior Secondary Schools amid staffing, infrastructure concerns
Lucy Mumbi  |  Oct 01, 2025

Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Migos Ogamba said the reforms are aimed at strengthening independence, addressing staffing shortages and refining t...

New era in Wajir as students celebrate as ID cards arrive just one week after registration
Issa Hussein  |  Sep 29, 2025

Most of the students from Wajir Secondary School were registered last week during the Ministry of Interior and National Administration’s Jukwaa la Usa...

Education ministry tightens capitation rules after billion-shilling ghost schools scandal
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 29, 2025

Every school will undergo a rigorous validation exercise to confirm registration with the county education board and the posting of a substantive prin...

Capitation crisis: Schools face financial paralysis weeks before start of national exams
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 28, 2025

The uproar comes a day after Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba, appearing before the Senate Committee on Education, requested one more week to...

New Bill seeks wealth declarations from non-teaching staff in public schools
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 24, 2025

The proposed amendment has reignited wider scrutiny of governance in education, with critics questioning whether reforms should target individual staf...

JSS teachers warn lack of facilities undermining student preparedness for senior school
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Sep 23, 2025

Teachers’ unions and Junior Secondary School (JSS) tutors are intensifying calls for the government to grant JSS full autonomy, separate from both pri...

Education stakeholders reject calls to separate JSS from primary schools
Carolyne Kubwa  |  Sep 23, 2025

He warned that moving learners to separate institutions could expose them to greater risks, pointing to recent unrest in some secondary schools as an...

Publishers warn of delays in Grade 10 textbooks rollout over Sh3 billion government debt
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 22, 2025

KPA chairperson Kiarie Kamau said the outstanding amount relates to books supplied earlier this year for Grade Nine and other levels, adding that the...

Schools face funding crisis as data errors stall disbursements
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Sep 20, 2025

Internal reports reveal that 719 schools provided incorrect bank details, risking misdirected or delayed funds, while around 900 schools submitted inc...

Nairobi MPs push for collaboration to end school overcrowding
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Sep 20, 2025

According to the Committee, many Nairobi schools in densely populated areas serve students from multiple constituencies, making joint planning essenti...

We created a support programme for schools in Nairobi’s informal settlements: What we learned
The Conversation  |  Sep 20, 2025

The programme consisted of homework support, mentoring in life skills (including relationship skills and responsible decision making), parental counse...

NG-CDF denies role in controversial Mandera South school project
Carolyne Kubwa  |  Sep 19, 2025

The case was lodged by a group of residents from Kotulo sub-county, who accuse their MP, Haro Abdul Ebrahim, of unilaterally setting up Gode Secondary...

Audit uncovers 50,000 ghost learners in secondary schools as verification hits 50 per cent
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 17, 2025

Basic Education Principal Secretary Julius Bitok told the National Assembly’s Education Committee, chaired by Julius Meli, that the verification exerc...

Ex-Alliance Girls teacher accused of sexual abuse found guilty of misconduct, TSC says
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 15, 2025

TSC Director of Legal, Labour and Industrial Relations Cavin Anyuor told the Senate Education Committee that an investigation conducted on July 25, 20...

Inside Ruto’s bag of goodies aimed at appeasing frustrated Kenyan teachers
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 14, 2025

The meeting at State House, Nairobi, brought together more than 10,000 teachers, union leaders and school heads’ associations, who pressed the governm...

Junior schools crippled by shortage of 72,000 teachers, as poor pay drives graduates away, TSC warns
Lucy Mumbi  |  Sep 14, 2025

TSC has revealed that Junior Secondary Schools are operating at only 50 per cent of their required staffing levels, leaving millions of learners under...

20 million African children fed through national school meals programmes – WFP
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Sep 13, 2025

Countries including Chad, Ethiopia, Madagascar, and Rwanda have expanded coverage by as much as six times, demonstrating both increased access and str...

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