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THE STANDARD EDUCATION A teacher at a Standard Eight classroom at Kisii primary school. [Sammy Omingo,Standard] After a 10-month Covid-19 imposed holiday, an estimated eight million primary school learners will this morning start a national assessment. The week-long assessment is being administered by the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec), but unlike other conventional examinations, there will be no ranking of learners according to the grades they score. A circular released by Acting K...

THE STANDARD By Augustine Oduor | January 9th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 Pupils observe Covid-19 guidelines by social distancing. [Jonah Onyango, Standard] Education stakeholders say the prolonged closure of schools may have resulted in learning losses, which may be unearthed by the evaluation. Over 30,000 schools have up to the end of next week to prepare children for mass assessments to evaluate learners’ understanding of subjects, 10 months after closure of schools. The Kenya National Ex...

Will new school calendar change customer spending habits in festive season? Thursday December 17 2020 With obsessive zeal we plough through the increased spending (oops, buying) in December, on November’s income; and because it is never enough (obviously) we throw in December’s income into the ring too. PHOTO | POOL By JOHN KAGECHE Summary All purchase logic goes out the window in December for Kenyans. And it happens like clockwork. Will the change in the school calendar bring sanity? Will ...

Article by Social Share The Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training will continue to engage education stakeholders as it seeks to chart the way forward during the COVID-19 pandemic. Minister of Education, Santia Bradshaw, said recently meetings were scheduled to be held this week for teachers, including those at the nursery and special education schools, principals, and teachers’ unions. Bradshaw, who was speaking on the sidelines of the launch of the National Give...