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1 week ago | 
standardmedia.co.ke | Augustine Oduor
Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba before Senate Education Committee at Bunge Towers, Nairobi. [File, Standard] Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba and the Head of Public Service Felix Koskei could be headed for a clash over the appointment of new vice chancellor of University of Nairobi.
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3 weeks ago | 
standardmedia.co.ke | Augustine Oduor |Lewis Nyaundi
The scramble for over Sh200 billion worth of assets at the University of Nairobi is threatening to collapse the premier institution in full glare of the authorities. The assets that include huge tracts of land and prime houses spread across strategic city estates, it emerged, has over the years been at the centre of unending wrangles that insiders claim are instigated by powerful external forces.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
standardmedia.co.ke | Augustine Oduor |Mike Kihaki
The government and the teachers are at loggerheads again over the fate of 46,000 interns. Yesterday, Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba said the intern teachers will have to apply afresh to be considered for permanent and pensionable terms. Ogamba said Teachers Service Commission (TSC) would begin the transition of the teachers’ interns to Permanent and Pensionable terms up to December.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
standardmedia.co.ke | Augustine Oduor |Mike Kihaki
Workers in public universities have downed tools, signalling the deepening mess in institutions of higher learning. With students still grumbling over the new funding model that clustered them into bands, the teaching and non-teaching staff absconding duty yesterday, thrust the sector into fresh crisis. The teaching staff listed poor pay, skewed allowances, discriminative medical covers, unpredictable schedule of salary payments.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
standardmedia.co.ke | Augustine Oduor
It is now emerging that failure to adopt a funding plan proposed by university vice-chancellors, as well as a poor implementation strategy of the new university funding model led to the present crisis. Interviews with vice-chancellors (VCs) in both public and private universities, insiders in government and higher education sector players pointed at a poor implementation plan for the new model.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
standardmedia.co.ke | Augustine Oduor |Mike Kihaki
Some universities postponed examinations that were due on Thursday due to the Gen Z protests. Communication from some of the institutions, such as the Technical University of Kenya (TUK) and KCA University, informed students on the change of events. In a circular dated August 7, 2024, just a day before the nane-nane protests, TUK Vice Chancellor Prof Benedict Mutua said, “This is to inform you that examinations scheduled for Thursday, August 8 have been suspended.
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Jul 6, 2024 | 
standardmedia.co.ke | Augustine Oduor
Controversy is raging on whether Grade Nine students should be moved to secondary schools or they should remain in primary schools. Education CS Ezekiel Machogu said the 1.3 million grade eight learners set to transition to Grade Nine in January will remain in primary schools, in line with recommendations of the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms (PWPER).
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May 8, 2024 | 
standardmedia.co.ke | Augustine Oduor |Lewis Nyaundi
Parents are staring at school fees and transport headaches as President William Ruto ordered the resumption of learning on Monday next week. The safety of learners in schools during rains, health issues posed by broken sanitation facilities and poor learning environment are some of the challenges parents and teachers will face.
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May 8, 2024 | 
standardmedia.co.ke | Augustine Oduor |Lewis Nyaundi
Parents are staring at school fees and transport headaches as President William Ruto ordered the resumption of learning on Monday next week. The safety of learners in schools during rains, health issues posed by broken sanitation facilities and poor learning environment are some of the challenges parents and teachers will face.
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May 3, 2024 | 
standardmedia.co.ke | Augustine Oduor |Mike Kihaki
Learning in schools is facing fresh disruptions occasioned by the heavy rains pounding the country. The rains that have so far claimed more than 210 lives, with several missing and many others displaced have also led to confusion on communication on the school calendar. This is after President William Ruto rescinded a Cabinet decision made barely 24 hours, ago in a meeting he chaired. Ruto chaired a Cabinet meeting on Thursday that endorsed the reopening of schools on May 6.
