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 … Read more
A group of unions is proposing that learners to continue staying at home for longer, citing the ‘unsafe’ school environment due to the current covid-19 pandemic. The group comprised of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) and Universities Academic Staff Union (Uasu) wants the government not to rush into schools’ reopening as it may … Read more
The Teachers Service Commission, TSC, has moved to set the record straight concerning its relationship with teachers’ unions. In what is seen as a direct response to the Kenya National Union of Teachers’, KNUT, aasertion that the TSC wants to cripple its operations, TSC now says it has no powers to deregister any trade union. … Read more
The teachers’ Service Commission has urged teachers to participate at the annual global teacher prize competition. The teachers are expected to nominate an outstanding teacher. Through a circular copied to all the 47 county directors by madam Rita Wamuyu Wahome, the Acting Director Staffing Division, the County directors “are requested to encourage innovation by advising … Read more