Garissa Township MP Aden Duale has defended education CS Prof. George Magoha on compelling parents to pay third term fees by sending children home. Magoha had last week told parents to pay third term school fees arrears for their children, warning that those who fail to do so will have their children sent home. The […]
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Stakeholders in the education sector in Turkana County on Tuesday rolled out an aggressive campaign to ensure all pupils and students return to school. Feed the Future, Kenya Livestock Market Systems, Mercy corps and the County Government’s Ministry of Education, Sports and Social protection rolled out back to school campaigns to complement the national government’s
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President Uhuru Kenyatta has today unveiled the Shs 2.2bn Empowering Novel Agribusiness-led Employment (ENABLE Kenya) program, a youth capacity building initiative aimed at creating employment, generating income and bridging succession gap in agribusiness. At the same event, the President unveiled the rebranded 4-K Clubs with a call to County Governments and stakeholders in the agriculture
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Padding the Girl Initiative, an NGO targets to provide 1,500 girls in 12 primary schools in Nambale Constituency with free sanitary pads in a programme dubbed ‘Zero Early Pregnancies.’ Ms Maureen Odhiambo, The NGO’s Chairperson who eyes Busia Woman Rep’s seat in next year’s General Election blamed local elected leaders of ignoring the plight of young girls in
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University students will get laptops from the Higher Education Loans Board, HELB, to aid in online learning. Education Cabinet Secretary Prof George Magoha on Thursday, last week, said his ministry is working on a framework to finance the acquisition of e-learning devices for all university students. “The Ministry is looking into ways of supporting continues
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Schools With Low Enrollment To Be Closed Education Cabinet Secretary Prof George Magoha said schools that have a low enrollment of students will be closed in a bid to save government resources. Magoha noted that there are some schools with so few students, some as low as 12 across all the classes receiving government funding.
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President Uhuru Kenyatta and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday called on rich nations to support the education of children in low income countries by backing the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) initiative. GPE is a multilateral platform that seeks to raise 5 billion USD to support the education of 175 million children in
Ministry of Education Cabinet Secretary (CS), Prof. George Magoha, has said that schools which opened for the 2020 third term on Monday, will close for a one week break on July 10, 2021. Magoha said the Ministry has deliberately created a tighter academic calendar that enables the Ministry to accelerate the completion of school terms,
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Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha has ordered all schools to re-introduce Physical Education (PE) lessons. The CS who was speaking during the launch of the inaugural Physical Education and Sports Policy at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development said strengthening of PE will promote the Government’s push for realization of national goals of education. “The
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Education Cabinet Secretary, Professor George Magoha, has banned a number of events within schools compounds. Magoha says schools have allowed a number of meetings to be carried out in their compounds, against the Ministry’s directives. “It has come to the attention of the Ministry of Education that various groups of people are targeting schools as
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Twelve (12) students from Maiani Girls Secondary School in Mukaa Sub-county, Makueni County have been arrested for allegedly torching their dormitory on Thursday morning. The students were arrested after the dorm that houses 177 form two and three students was razed down in a suspected arson attack at 7.20am. The suspects were not in class
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Education Cabinet Secretary Professor George Magoha has come out to array fears over uncertainty in schools’ reopening. Speaking in Kiambu County on Monday Monday, while supervising the opening of Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams container, the CS said current data shows a decline in Covid-19 infections, thus there are no plans to further
