The push for junior school autonomy is gaining momentum, with unions warning of possible legal action if their demands are ignored. Leaders of the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) argue that the current arrangement violates the structure…
Junior school teachers are raising alarm over what they describe as a “career dead end” in their current deployment. While they were hired to support the rollout of the competency-based curriculum, many now fear that without reforms, their professional growth…
The rollout of junior schools under the competency-based curriculum was meant to enhance learning. Yet, for many teachers, the experience has been marked by harassment, exploitation, and crushing workloads. In Kwale County, teachers complain that they are routinely assigned non-teaching…
Three years after the rollout of the junior school segment, teachers across the country are voicing strong concerns over their treatment and working conditions. Many feel unsettled, under-resourced, and overwhelmed by heavy workloads. Their main call: to be delinked from…
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…
A battle is brewing between Kenya’s teachers and the government over plans to migrate them from the long-standing Minet medical cover to the Social Health Authority (SHA). Although touted as a pathway to expanded healthcare access, unions say the scheme…
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…