Over 30 privately-owned Kanungu schools closed
Teachers inspect poor condition school latrines which have led to closure of many schools Kanungu district education department has closed 39 privately-owned primary schools in the district. The schools were closed because they do not conform to the minimum standards required of them to operate as stipulated in the Education Act 2008. A statement from More...
300 English teachers to arrive in Rwanda this month
Rwandan teachers during a past meeting. The New Times A group of 300 English teachers recruited from Kenya and Uganda are expected to arrive in the country before the end of this month, an official has disclosed. In More...
Uganda: Alupo advises teachers to seize job opportunities in EA
Uganda’s Education minister Jessica Alupo has encouraged Ugandan teachers to take advantage of the goodwill and demand for their services in other East African countries and use it to bring money home. “Many More...
Schools in Uganda open for second term
Students and pupils in boarding schools across the country jammed taxi parks and bus stages to report back to school, making the end of the first term holidays and the start of second term. And it was business More...
Kenyan MPs want teachers to sign performance contracts
Teachers may soon sign performance contracts or miss out on annual increments, something they have been resisting through their unions. The renewed pressure piling on teachers to yield to individual monitoring of More...
Kenyan street boy defies odds to make it to university
When Michael Onjiko heard that street children were being taken off major towns around the country in February 2003, he desperately wanted to escape the dragnet. What he did not know, though, is that the day he More...
Are strict university rules killing students’ drive?
Students on campus are largely decently dressed.Those who dont have no regard for others They have been dubbed the ‘glorified’ secondary schools. The name has nothing to do with the quality of education they More...
Kenya launched National Peace Education Campaign
The Education Ministry launched the National Peace Education Campaign on Friday at Uasin Gishu Primary School in Eldoret. Education Minister Mutula Kilonzo Education Minister Mutula Kilonzo underscored the critical More...
Kazooba’s music set his school a class apart
The headteaching his students the school anthem When I arrived at Nyakisoroza trading centre, a five-year-old volunteered to lead me to the school where a teacher has become the darling of an entire village because More...
USE schools get sh17b textbooks
USE pupils at Kololo senior secondary school. The education ministry has started distributing free text books to 1563 schools under the Universal Secondary Education (USE) program in an effort to improve post primary More...
