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Father Tricks & Abandons Daughter 130 KMs From Home Motorists stuck at a traffic snarl-up along Mombasa Road Kenyans.co.ke A Form One student was forced to approach strangers for help after her father tricked and abandoned her 130 kilometres from their home - Kabati (Kitui) County.  The student at St Catherine Nthagaiya Girls High School in Runyenjes was rescued by good samaritans who escorted her to Kutus Police Station where she recorded a statement.  She alleged that she was left stra...

So far, she said, 151,494 teachers all over the country had received the first dose of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. “The Ministry of Education has launched the Mwalimucare app to help teacher’s access medical care. TSC is also set to launch a biometric system of teachers in all schools. The system will help collect fingerprint data for all teachers,” said Ms Macharia. In April 2021 President Uhuru Kenyatta directed that all teachers and school support staff to received the Covid-19 v...

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 Education Cabinet Secretary Prof. George Magoha said on Friday that KCSE results will be released "when they are ready". [File, Standard] Education Cabinet Secretary (CS) Prof. George Magoha has warned the media and social media users against triggering Kenyans’ anxiety over the release of KCSE results. The CS, who spoke at the Starehe Boys’ Centre and School in Nairobi on Friday, May 7, said his ministry will communicate when the exam outcome is ready. “People sho...

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...

We didn’t favour public schools, says Education PS David Muchunguh The government has denied engaging in manipulation of KCPE results in favour of public primary schools, even as owners of private academies raised questions over the sudden dip in performance of their institutions. Private schools have for decades produced the bulk of top students in national exams, but public institutions turned the tables on them in last year’s Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE)...

Magoha spoke on Thursday while releasing the the 2020 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) results. The directive by the President comes as schools prepare to reopen for the Third term on May 10, 2021 for all classes except Grade Four and Form One. The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) CEO Nancy Macharia noted that examiners who participated in the marking of the papers did not have an opportunity to go for the jab. “Today, the President has allowed us to ensure that all teachers wil...

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...

Less pupils score above 400 in KCPE Thursday April 15 2021 By HELLEN GITHAIGA The number of candidates who scored 400 marks and above in the 2020 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination dropped by 16.4 per cent for a second year in a row at a time the school calendar was interrupted by the long closure occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic. Of the 1,179,192 million pupils who sat for the national exams last month, 8,091 scored above 400, a drop from 9,673 in 2019. “When the Co...