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I have closely been following discussions in the print, social and broadcast media on the sensitive yet disturbing subject of teenage pregnancies. The discussions have attracted enormous opinions ranging from confining the adolescent girls to the house, not allowing them to visit relatives to restricting them from watching the TVs, using mobile phones, assessing internet […]
The Government of Kenya through the Kenya Housing Fund is set to roll out a mandatory housing scheme for all workers. The housing scheme targets a minimum of Kshs. 3.4 Billion annually from employers and employers after the housing fund levy was signed into law by the President in the 2018 Finance Bill. provision of […]
For the past few weeks, there have been unconfirmed rumours that the head of State, HE Uhuru Kenyatta, may reshuffle his Cabinet Secretaries. If the rumours come to pass, then one Dr Amina Mohammed (the Education Ministry’s Cabinet Secretary) may not be spared; going by the words on the tongues of most Kenyans. Dr Amina’s […]
It is painful to watch the TSC overreacting to the court order requiring it to promote teachers who are waiting for promotions after acquiring higher academic qualifications. Honestly speaking,these teachers are not making a strange demand. They are sharing stations and staff rooms with fellow teachers who have got promotions on the basis of such […]
The Government has today, Tuesday 16th April- 2019, announced that it will roll out its Low Cost Housing Fund Levy; effective this month. This step by the government to push an unpopular, political housing scheme down the throats of the Kenyan workers is suspicious, ill intended and an unacceptable burden on the already overburdened Kenyan […]
Come to think of this.. A teacher is hacked to death by his own students; the ones he endeavors to help garner a bright future! This, to the Teachers Service Commission, TSC, is just a normal happening! This has irked Union Leaders who feel there is a disconnect between the teachers and their employer; the […]
The Ambira incident should be a wake up call to the government that you can’t give absolute rights to the children without putting in place proper checks to ensure indiscipline is dealt with firmly. Teachers deal with worse cases year in year out. When such students are suspended, the ministry comes in very first with […]
Affordable housing is one of President Uhuru kenyatta’s big four agenda; others being Enhancing Manufacturing, Food Security & Nutrition and Universal Health care. The housing scheme has already been given a green light by the president, when he signed the 2018 Finance act, recently. Under the Affordable housing scheme, employees will contribute 1.5 percent of […]
The move to deduct 1.5% of gross salary of teachers and civil servants to finance the housing scheme is just but another oppression on the already overtaxed Kenyan teachers and civil servants of this country. Its totally unfair to hurt employees so as to advance political interests. It’s more strange that the scheme is only […]
The Kenya National Examinations Council, KNEC, should invest in the people who make the examinations work and stop depending on voluntary service. The Deputy principals have been authorized to be in school during the entire examination period, the science teachers are expected in schools a day before the practical examinations and during the examinations to […]
A Centre Manager is, mostly, a head teacher (Primary schools) or a principal (Secondary schools) of a school where a National Examination (KCPE or KCSE) is carried out. The Centre manager is appointed by the Kenya National Examinations Council, KNEC, after secondment from the employer; the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). During the examination period, the […]