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KUPPET Partners With University In Teacher Training

January 10, 2026 Hillary Kangwana Leave a comment

Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) Homa bay branch is set to partner with Tom Mboya University College to enable teachers further their education in the university.

Union branch Executive Secretary Steven Yogo said this was in line with the union’s objective to encourage secondary school teachers under the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to attain higher education levels.

See also; List of Kuppet officials 2021-2026

In a meeting between KUPPET and top administrators of Tom Mboya the two bodies agreed on a plan that will allow TSC teachers with Diploma certificates to enroll for graduate studies.

“The contract we are looking to sign in the near future will allow secondary school teachers within Homa Bay County under TSC to join the university college for their Degree studies at second year levels rather than first year,” said Yogo.

Yogo explained that the university will also generate a website that will enable secondary school teachers within the county to access online classes in line with Covid-19 protocols.

The secretary urged teachers to take extra precautions against the virus.

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Summary of the Kuppet Constitution Ammendmends in 2024

January 9, 2026 Hillary Kangwana Leave a comment

The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers, Kuppet, has amended its constitution. The amendments were done during the 2024 Annual Delegates Conference, ADC, in Vihiga.

During the ADC, major constitutional amendments were made which included scrapping the retirement age for contestants, increasing nomination fees and introduction of new posts at Branch, Regional and National levels.

Get a detailed summary of the amendments here.

SUMMARY OF THE 2024 AMMENDMENTS OF THE KUPPET CONSTITUTION

The articles touched in the amendments are:

Article 2: 1A INTERPRETATION

This is a new article which defines a member, a delegate and a branch.

❇️ A member has been difined as teacher/lecturer/trainer who is a fully paid up member of KUPPET.

❇️ A delegate has been defined as a registered official or members of KUPPET entitled to attend the annual and the special delegates conference.

❇️ A county has been defined as a geographical regional within which a KUPPET branch is confined.

Article 4.0: THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

Clause VA has been added.

❇️(VA) To buttress gender equity and equal opportunities without any forms of discrimination on the basis of inter Alia sex, race, tribe, age or religion.

Article 8.20: Delegates to the Conference

❇️ The article has increased the number of elected delegates from 10 to 14 by adding 4 new elective seats which are:

1st Assistant Gender Secretary, 2nd assistant Gender Secretary, 3rd Assistant Gender Secretary and Assistant Secretary Junior Secondary.

❇️ These additional slots for gender are aimed at increasing ladies representation in union leadership while the secretary Junior Secondary is sector specific for the junior secondary sector just like the secretary secondary for the regular secondary soon to be called senior secondary sector and secretary tertiary for the tertiary sector.

❇️ The article also brings in pro-rata delegates who shall be determined by the membership of a branch. For every 100 members above the first 300 members a branch will elect one pro-rata delegate during the BGA. This shall be done annually.

❇️ It also defines who is qualified to contest for a national executive board post.

Article 8.8.1A: Regional Councils

❇️The article introduces a new level of union representation which is the regional council. The regions are (Coast, North Eastern, Eastern, Central, Nairobi, Rift valley, Western, Nyanza)

❇️ This organ shall address teacher welfare issues and union issues at regional level by engaging the regional leadership of the employer and the ministry.

❇️The article give the operational and administrative structures of the Regional Councils. The regional council shall have 7 officials who are: Chairman, Vice chairman, Executive Secretary, Assistant executive secretary, treasurer, assistant Treasurer, woman representative.

Article 8.130: Trustees

❇️The number of union trustees has been increased from 4 to 9. Each region (Coast, North Eastern, Eastern, Central, Nairobi, Rift valley, Western, Nyanza) will have one trustee.

Trustees are the custodians of union properties.

Article 10.0: Officers of the union

❇️ This article captures the additional 4 new elective seats (the 1st assistant Gender Secretary, 2nd assistant Gender Secretary, 3rd Assistant Gender Secretary and Assistant Secretary Junior Secondary) both at branch and national level and outlines their roles.

Article 12.0: Terms of office Bearers

The article remained unchanged.

Article 13.0: Union elections.

❇️The article has ammended the membership requirements for one to contest as a union official at branch level. The minimum membership period was set at one year membership for members in junior secondary (as a transition clause since it’s a new sector) and 5 yrs membership for members in regular secondary/senior secondary and those in tertiary.

❇️All the other clauses remained unchanged.

Article 14.0: Nomination fees

The Nomination fees were revised as follows:

✳️ General Secretary, National Chairman, National treasurer – 500,000/-
✳️ All other National seats – 300,000/-
✳️ Executive Secretary – 200,000/-
✳️ Branch Chair, Branch treasurer – 100,000
✳️ All other Branch executive committee seats – 50,000.

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Trouble for Knut, Kuppet as teachers form new union

January 9, 2026 Hillary Kangwana Leave a comment

A new union for all teachers has been formed. Forming of the new union would see a mass exodus of teachers from the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) and Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet).

The new teachers’ outfit, the National Education Union (Neu) will draw membership from all pre-primary, primary, secondary, post secondary and private learning institutions. This is the first union of a kind that will represent members across the board.

Kuppet represents members in Secondary and Post Secondary Institutions. On the other hand, Knut draws her membership from primary schools across the country. Other Unions include: the Kenya Union of Pre-primary Education Teachers (Kunoppet), which draws its membership from pre-primary teachers, and the Kenya Union of Technical and Vocational Education Trainers (Kutvet).

Neu has its operations and service delivery based on ‘service, justice and Unity.

Formation of the new union poses a major challenge to both Kuppet and Knut which teachers have castigated for signing an ’empty’ Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA); with the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).

The two teachers’ unions are also riddled with acrimony more so at the National Offices. For instance, the current Kuppet National Offices renewed their term after changing the Constitution in favour.

The move to have all Kuppet members in its County Burial Benevolent Fund (BBF) has angered a section of members.

It remains to be seen if the TSC will open the union exit button on the the T-pay portal.

Teachers’ unions

Here is a list of all the currently registered teachers’ unions:

S/N	TEACHERS’ UNION	MEMBERSHIP
1	Kuppet	Secondary and Post Secondary Institutions
2	Knut	Primary Schools
3	Neu	All primary, secondary and tertiary institutions
4	Kusnet	Special needs learning institutions
5	Kunoppet	Pre-Primary institutions
6	Kutvet	Technical and Vocational Institutions

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

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