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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 stranded at Kutus Bus Station in Kirinyaga County.   A police report filed at the station detailed tha...

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 vaccine. According to Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha, the decision to vaccinate all teache...

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 in January and ends in December, with breaks in-between, were necessitated by the effects of Covid-19...

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 Five to Seven and Form One to Three learners resume classes next week. During the ten-month stay at h...

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 should not spread rumours on when exam results would be released. The results will be announced when th...