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THE STANDARD By Mohamed Guleid | February 4th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 According to the Kenyan law, education for children is a right. The Basic Education Act of 2013 states that every child has a right to free and compulsory education. Going to school, therefore, is not a matter of choice, but an obligation. Every parent must ensure his or her child goes to school, failure of which might lead to prosecution. Unfortunately, most children from the pastoralist communities lack this opportunity. Insufficient infrastructure for education has been a challenge to easy access to education for ch...

THE STANDARD By Augustine Oduor | February 4th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 Education CS Prof. George Magoha addresses the press on January 20, 2021, at Our Lady of Fatima Secondary School in Kariobangi, Nairobi. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard] The Ministry of Education is proposing major changes to the law that may see it snatch the role of managing public schools from head teachers. The ministry wants the Basic Education Act amended to redefine a ‘manager’ in far reaching changes that may effectively see it hire a new set of persons to manage schools. The move is likely to spark a fresh stor...

Teachers’ union fights plan to hire school managers Wednesday February 03 2021 By LYNET IGADWAH Summary The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Teachers (Kuppet) has opposed plans by the Education ministry to hire school managers directly. The ministry, through Amendments to the Basic Education Act 2013, has proposed employment of school managers to help head teachers run the institutions more efficiently. Kuppet, however claims that the move is a plot by the Ministry of Education to illegally grab the human resource management role from the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). The Kenya Union of Pos...

THE STANDARD By Augustine Oduor | February 1st 2021 at 12:05:00 GMT +0300 The Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Secretary general Wilson Sosion addresses teachers after overseeing Nakuru county KNUT elections at Afraha High school in Nakuru on January 30, 2021.[Kipsang Joseph, Standard] Schools are facing a serious dilemma on how to discipline learners, as teachers and parents reject the use of the cane to punish errant students. Opinion remains divided on the proposal by the Ministry of Education to reintroduce the cane banned in 2001, as some stakeholders say it may be the magic sti...

THE STANDARD OPINION Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Secretary-General Wilson Sossion and union chairman Mudzo Nzili with Teachers Service Commission CEO Nancy Macharia at a past function. [File, Standard] Dispute prevention and resolution attract more attention today because they are critical for sound and productive employment relations worldwide. Dispute resolution processes offer a collective bargaining resource to the interested parties and strengthen social partnerships. As conflict is inherent to, and inevitable in employment relationships, establishing effective dispute preven...