TSC Goes After School Principals
21 February 2021 - 1:49 pm A signpost showing the Teachers Service Commission office. TSC is mandated with hiring teachers in Kenya
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A report by
Daily Nation on Sunday, February 21, indicated that the commission was targeting five high school principals from Bomet County alone.
The commission said it was widening its net to target unscrupulous school heads who continue to cook books and steal from the government.
The County Teachers Service Commission (TSC) boss Charles Nyauma indicated that the teachers would face disciplinary action for misusing the funds. The principals files have been taken to the commission for appropriate action, stated Nyauma.
KUPPET Demands Guns For Teachers, Boarding Schools Abolished
The government should provide security training and guns for teachers deployed in volatile regions of the country, the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has demanded.
According to acting KUPPET Secretary General Moses Nthurima, armed teachers would be better poised to deal with attackers.
“We are repeating this demand that in the pockets of insecurity, teachers must be trained and provided with guns. You cannot confront a gunman with chalk. When we take a teacher to insecurity prone areas that teacher will constantly live in fear. But if the gun is hanging on his back even bandits will know that teacher is a no-go zone and they will take a second thought before making any mistake,” said Nthurima.
THE STANDARD By
Augustine Oduor |
January 28th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Two international education lobby groups have written to President Uhuru Kenyatta (
pictured) to intervene in labour disputes between the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and the Teachers Service Commission.
The leadership of Education International and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) in a letter to Kenyatta pleads that TSC be stopped from delisting Knut members.
“The TSC should reverse its anti-union actions against Knut and engage in a serious dialogue and in good faith to restore healthy industrial relations and a good environment for quality education,” reads the letter dated January 22.
THE STANDARD
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Former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero at Olare in Homabay County. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]
Former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero has hit the ground running after he announced that he is in the race to succeed Homa Bay Governor Cyprian Awiti.
In the past two days, Dr Kidero has held meetings in Kasipul Kabondo, Ndhiwa, Rangwe and Karachunyo where he also campaigned for the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI).
The former governor, who called for sober campaigns during his talks with opinion and religious leaders, backed ODM leader Raila Odinga s push for a rotational presidency. It should be anchored in the Constitution like in Switzerland, said the former county chief who lost his re-election bid in 2017.