Lynet Igadwah

2 weeks ago | businessdailyafrica.com | Lynet Igadwah |Richard Munguti

Kenyatta University (KU) has been stopped by the Court of Appeal from changing the terms of employment of 26 employees to seasonal contracts. The group had worked in the higher learning institution for over 10 years as plumbers, painters, electricians, carpenters and masons. The university wrote an internal memo on July 9, 2018 asking a section of its workers –whom it had paid monthly salaries continuously for years— to sign seasonal contracts on July 19, 2018.

3 weeks ago | nation.africa | Lynet Igadwah

What you need to know:The Kenya Kwanza government has not abolished free education, but it may not need to. By quietly cutting or stagnating funding while costs rise, it is effectively reintroducing barriers to access. “We are between a rock and a hard place.” That is how Education Cabinet Secretary (CS) Julius Ogamba described the status of funding learning in the country on Thursday, when he appeared before the National Assembly Education Committee. He was honest and candid.

3 weeks ago | nation.africa | Lynet Igadwah

The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) is demanding for expansion of the country’s 44 designated hardship zones, citing deteriorating living conditions driven by rising insecurity, human-wildlife conflict, and longstanding marginalization in areas yet to be officially recognised. The union has declared opposition to the government’s plan targeting to reduce hardship zones under the Teachers Service Commission(TSC), terming it ill-informed.

3 weeks ago | nation.africa | Lynet Igadwah

The Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) is on the spot after it emerged that two ethnic communities – Kikuyu and Kalenjin – occupy nearly half of jobs at the State corporation, highlighting inequality in access to public sector employment among Kenya’s 43 communities. A report submitted to the National Assembly Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity shows that the duo accounts for 44.3 per cent (1,080) of the company’s 2,437 staff.

3 weeks ago | nation.africa | Lynet Igadwah

Not many outside the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) knew Evaleen Jesang Mitei before Tuesday, when she was made acting chief executive officer. She steps into the role following the exit of long-serving CEO Nancy Macharia, at a time when there’s mounting pressure on the Commission to deliver on key reforms in teacher management and deployment. While Mitei is a career human resource management professional, having spent three decades in the field, her career began in the classroom.