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🖊️##Teachers sue TSC, Minet over ‘shoddy’ services
A group of teachers has dragged their employer and a health insurer to court for allegedly denying them access to quality medical services and now want the signing of a new medical insurance scheme halted.
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##🖊️CBC Review Report
National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula has appealed for patience as Parliament readies to receive the findings of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) report to be tabled this week.
Speaking in Bungoma, the Speaker assured that legislators will be keen to scrutinize the crucial document that will decide the fate of the new education system even as the CBC pioneer class sits for the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) next week on Monday to November 30.
“The current CBC curriculum is a milestone in the practical aspect of the education sector in the country. I will be keen to sieve through the CBC report awaited to be tabled in Parliament this coming week.
Therefore I call upon the parents and education stakeholders to be patient as the process of implementing the CBC curriculum is streamlined” he said.
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##🖊️Knec exam fraudsters nabbed
MASTERMIND of examination fraud with Telegram following of 20,000 arrested ahead of KNEC assessments this week.
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##🖊️Teachers’ Unions: Ensure our teachers get the best possible healthcare services.
Teachers still complain to date over the manner in which they are handled when they visit some accredited service providers. We have noted as their representatives that the complaints they are raising are the same as those they raised previously.
Delays in authorising prescriptions, the seven days capitation for outpatient cases,
issuance of generic drugs to teachers and the opaqueness in how billing is done are among the complaints.
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##🖊️Safaricom introduces expiry for ‘Bonga points’
Safaricom has introduced an expiry date on its loyalty programme, popularly known as Bonga Points, in a bid to encourage redemption and unlock the underlying revenue that totalled Sh4.5 billion as of march this year.
The listed telco has told subscribers that all unredeemed Bonga points will now be expiring after three years, meaning that those accumulated before December 31, 2019, will expire effective January 1, 2023.
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##🖊️39 Kericho Inmates To Sit For KCPE
Two inmates serving life imprisonment will be among the 39 candidates sitting this year’s Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) at the three Kericho GK prisons.
In an interview with KNA, Officer-In-Charge of the prison, Assistant Commissioner of Prisons (ACP), Wilfred Kati, said prisoners are encouraged to go back to school upon conviction.
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##🖊️The Amended Children’s Act, 2022
The new act provides ways of addressing vulnerable children’s concerns like online abuse, child trafficking, and radicalization among others.
The law established a Child Welfare Fund funded through the national exchequer under the aegis of the Public Finance Management Act.
The Children Act expressly mandates County Governments to establish child welfare schemes and child care facilities in their respective counties besides taking charge of pre-primary education.
The age of criminal responsibility among children has been raised from the current 8 years to 12 years.
Children in Conflict with the law after committing minor offenses will not be taken through the court system; they will be diverted to community-based systems.
All Children in Conflict with the law will have access to free legal aid as they navigate through the justice system.
Children living with disability will be accorded free medical treatment, special care, education and training.
Kinship adoption has been included in the law, where a relative is able to adopt a child in his lineage in a much cheaper and faster way with less legal technicalities.
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##🖊️Education CS Ezekiel Machogu on Exams’ leakages
Education CS Ezekiel Machogu has asked members of the public to report any attempts of examination leakages received through the phone, while cautioning against resending of such messages.
Machogu said that the public needed to be wary of fraudsters who take advantage of the national examinations to con unsuspecting members of the public by claiming to be in possession of examination papers.
He asked Kenyans to report any such culprits to the relevant authorities for quick action.
The CS said that they are working with the Communications Authority of Kenya and the department of ICT to nab anyone trying to spread messages or screenshots that purport to be genuine examination papers.
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##🖊️🖊️KNEC Issues New Rules To Curb Exam Cheating
No extra examination papers will be issued during the national examinations expected to start from next week, a Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) official Rebecca Leseketeti has said.
Leseketeti said the papers would be given according to the number of candidates in the examination centre and extra copies should be sealed and returned to the containers.
She said the move is part of the new guidelines introduced by the council to curb cheating and ensure credibility in the examinations.
“Do not retain any extra papers. They should be returned to the container at the end of the day. Similarly candidates who will not write the examinations for various reasons should have their desks removed from the examinations room,” she said.
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##🖊️CS Machogu on National Exams and Weather patterns
Fears that the rains pounding different parts of the country could interfere with the delivery of examinations materials have prompted Education Cabinet Secretary (CS) Ezekiel Machogu to seek help of weatherman on weather patterns during the examination period which begins on Monday next week.
Through a letter to his Environment and Forestry counterpart Soipan Tuya, Mr Machogu says that his ministry has already mapped routes for the transportation of examination materials.
“In order to properly and comprehensively plan for this exercise, kindly provide us with a weather advisory covering the said period. This will enable us to anticipate weather changes and equip our team with adequate information to effectively deliver the examination,” Mr Machogu’s letter reads.
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