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The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has strongly opposed proposals to lower the minimum academic requirements for training Early Childhood Development (ECD) teachers. The commission insists that pre-primary teachers must possess high qualifications, warning that lowering standards would compromise the foundation…
Kenya’s plan to migrate teachers from the Minet medical insurance scheme to the Social Health Authority (SHA) is shaping up into a test of balancing broader access with quality healthcare delivery. While the government promises improved coverage, teachers’ unions warn…
Kenya’s education sector is on the brink of a health coverage standoff as teachers’ unions push back against government plans to migrate more than 400,000 tutors and their dependents from the Sh20 billion Minet medical scheme to the newly established…
President William Ruto has ordered a review of Kenya’s education financing system after thousands of pupils were left at risk of missing government support due to faulty data submissions and budgetary misalignment. Speaking during a meeting with teachers at State…
A sweeping audit of primary school records has exposed glaring weaknesses in data management, leaving thousands of learners vulnerable to missing out on government support this term. The exercise, which scrutinized submissions from schools across all 47 counties, flagged 3,485…
Thousands of primary school learners across Kenya risk being sidelined from crucial government capitation after 3,485 schools were flagged in a nationwide audit for errors in their data submissions. The review, covering all 47 counties, revealed multiple cases of schools…
A sweeping Ministry of Education audit has uncovered a major capitation scandal, with more than 50,000 secondary school students flagged as “ghost learners.” The scheme, if unchecked, could have cost taxpayers more than Sh1.1 billion annually. The discovery was revealed…
The Ministry of Education has warned that Kenya’s student population may drop by nearly 10 percent after an ongoing audit revealed tens of thousands of ghost learners across schools. Early findings suggest secondary schools are the most affected, with over…
Kenya’s education sector has been rocked by a damning audit that found more than 50,000 ghost learners in secondary schools. The fraud could be draining the public purse of at least Sh1.1 billion annually, based on the capitation rate of…