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For many innovators in Kenya, the inspiration that comes with that triumphant discovery does not last beyond Archimedes’ eureka moment.

THE STANDARD NATIONAL Rosemary Kinuthia, Executive Director of the African Boy Child Network has told The Standard that there is an urgent need to highlight the needs of the male gender. [File, Standard] Organisations in support of the boy child have called on the government to implement existing laws that protect the latter. This comes at a time when Kenya is celebrating the World Day of the Boy Child for the first time since its conception in 2018. Rosemary Kinuthia, Executive Director of the...

THE STANDARD EDITORIAL Shoppers flock Kibrose Uniforms Limited, Nairobi to buy uniforms ahead of school reopening. [David Njaaga, Standard] Schools reopen from today for the third term after a long holiday. Third term will be relatively short - two months - running up to July 16, 2021, when schools close again for 10 days. Learning will then resume on July 26, 2021, for the first term of the new academic calendar for 2022. These unfamiliar changes in the school calendar that ordinarily begins i...

THE STANDARD EDITORIAL Pupils at a library at Koyaya village, Kabondo Kasipul in Homabay County. [Denish Ochieng, Standard] Reported fears and concerns among parents and guardians over the potential effects of long holidays on their children are not unfounded. A circular to all regional, county and sub-county directors of education from the Ministry of Education states that Grade Four pupils will remain at home. According to the circular, only Pre-Primary 1 and 2, Grade One to Three, Standard F...

THE STANDARD EDUCATION Sharon Alaka, a class three pupil at Eshikumu Primary School in Ikolomani plucking ripe fruits at Shirula village in Ikolomani. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard] Unease has emerged over the fate of Grade Four learners even as the government directed that the children remain at home when schools open on Monday. In a circular to all regional, county and sub-county directors of education, the Ministry of Education states that Grade Four children must remain at home. The May 3 circ...

The 2020 national examination was unique to the fact that it took place in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, which posed a great challenge to the Education Ministry. The Standard reported that some examiners were unable to show up for the marking exercise due to the ongoing restriction of movement in the country. This was as a result of the partial lockdown of some counties, while others decided not to turn up due to fears of the disease. "When the Covid-19 pandemic befell the country in Ma...

THE STANDARD EDUCATION Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha is set to release the 2020 Kenya Certificate of Primary Examination (KCPE) exam results any time now. The results will be released at 2.00pm at Mtihani House, along Dennis Pritt road, Nairobi. Magoha The exam, which is last year’s (2020) paper began on March 22- 24. KEEP READING The 2020 national examination was unique to the fact that it took place in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, which posed a great challenge to the Ed...

THE STANDARD EDUCATION Mitchelle Makungu, a girl who survived Kakamega primary schools stampede, celebrates with teachers outside the school after scoring 408 marks in the KCPE exams. [Mumo Munuve, Standard] Kakamega Primary School has emerged among the top-performing schools in last years KCPE examinations. It is among the best public schools in Kenya despite a stampede in February 2020 which left 15 pupils dead and scores injured. Before the school community could recover from the tragedy, th...

THE STANDARD KENYA Kibet at Kerio View. [Christopher Kipsang, Standard] The hanging valleys of Kerio Escarpment give visitors a gorgeous view of the scenic Elgeyo-Marakwet County. Iten, a small town famed as the country’s most preferred athletics training base, has in recent years earned another distinction. It is the home of paragliding. When paragliders from Europe and America are in the skies from October to March every year, they enjoy the rocky and picturesque Kerio Valley as well as th...

Mama boys: The ups and downs of single mothers and their sons Son hugging his mum outdoor. Kenyan men, as surveys have shown, prefer single mothers with girls. A mum and her daughter have a ‘girl thing’ and mentoring her into a woman and how to deal with men is somewhat easy. The same is not the case with raising boys in homes without a father figure. Women have it rough when sons reach puberty. They will be at sea on how to make men out of boys who have grown clutching their petticoats. Sh...