Kenya’s Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) reforms, designed to transform learning and align education with modern skills, face a critical threat: teacher shortages. Education CS Julius Ogamba confirmed that the system is short of 137,500 teachers, a crisis that could derail the…
As Kenya races toward the January 2026 transition of Competency-Based Education (CBE) learners into senior school, one challenge has become glaring—teachers for specialised fields are in short supply. Among the most pressing gaps is the lack of indigenous language teachers.…
Kenya’s education sector is undergoing one of its biggest reforms in decades, yet the country’s teacher training system is struggling to keep pace. Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba admitted that the government faces a shortage of 137,500 teachers, most urgently…
With just three months left before the first cohort of Competency-Based Education (CBE) learners move to senior school, the Ministry of Education has sounded the alarm on a severe teacher shortage across critical learning areas. Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba…
Thousands of schools across the country are struggling with delayed government funding after submitting incorrect enrolment data during the ongoing verification exercise. According to the Ministry of Education, 3,485 primary schools and nearly 1,949 secondary schools failed to receive capitation…
The ongoing enrolment verification exercise is set to trigger mass transfers of teachers, as the Ministry of Education moves to correct mismatches between student numbers and staffing levels. Preliminary findings show that while some schools are overcrowded and understaffed, others…
An ongoing data verification exercise in the Ministry of Education has revealed a massive fraud involving inflated enrolment figures, with more than 50,000 non-existent learners flagged in official records. The revelations come at a time when schools are grappling with…
The Ministry of Education has vowed to take strict disciplinary action against teachers and officials implicated in the falsification of school enrolment records. This follows a data audit that uncovered more than 50,000 “ghost” learners in government records, costing taxpayers…
Parliamentarians are urging the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to change its recruitment model and prioritise the employment of teachers early in their careers to prevent cases of trained professionals retiring without ever being absorbed into the system. The issue surfaced…