Category: Education
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Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen speaking during the 48th Jukwaa la Usalama town hall meeting at the Kenya School of Government, Kabete, on October 2, 2025. (Photo: X/Kipchumba Murkomen) Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has announced plans to set up police posts near some colleges and higher institutions of learning in the country. This, he said,…
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National Assembly Education Committee Chair Julius Melly who says Parliament will summon the Ministry of Education and other agencies over KSTVET’s missing title deed. (Photo: Parliament of Kenya) Members of Parliament have raised concerns over the missing title deed of the Kenya School of TVET (KSTVET), questioning why the institution has not recovered it nearly…
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Commission for University Education Chief Executive Officer Prof. Mike Kuria during an inspection visit by the National Assembly’s Departmental Committee on Education in Gigiri, Nairobi, on October 2, 2025. (Photo: CUE) The Commission for University Education (CUE) is under scrutiny over a rise in fake academic certificates, staffing shortages and mounting debts, as Members of…
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The lecturers’ strike is in its third week and the Ministry of Education and the lecturers unions cannot agree on the terms.Lecturers have vowed not to go back to work until their arrears are paid in full and their other terms are met. The students have issued an ultimatum for the governmnt to end the…
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Western Region TSC Director Wilson Koros As the world anticipates the commemoration of World Teachers’ Day, teachers in Western Kenya have been called upon to use the day to plant trees in order to counter the effects of climate change. The Western Region Teachers Service Commission (TSC) Director, Wilson Koros, while overseeing a pre-commemoration exercise…
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A collage of some of Kenya’s universities. Photo/UON, KU, Egerton Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS) Kipchumba Murkomen has announced plans to establish police posts near universities and colleges across the country. While attending the Jukwaa la Usalama forum in Nairobi County on Thursday, October 2, Murkomen stated that the move aims to curb rising insecurity, drug…
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Dr. Margaret Gakami, first Kenyan Female Administration Police Officer to Earn a PhD. Photo/ Gakami A Senior Administration Police (AP) officer, Margaret Gakami, became the first female officer in the Administration Police to earn a PhD. Dr. Gakami, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, received her doctorate in Project Planning and Management at the University of…
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Upper Hill School. PHOTO/Ian Chumo Upper Hill School is an extra-county public boys’ secondary school located in the heart of Nairobi County. The history of the learning institution is closely tied to that of State House Girls’ High School (SGHS) and the colonial reorganization of educational institutions in Kenya. The land on which SGHS now…
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Former head of communication at the State Department of Basic Education, Kennedy Buhere. PHOTO/NTV. Former head of communication at the State Department of Basic Education, Kennedy Buhere, has asked the public to ignore the letter circulating on social media purporting that he wrote to certain basic education institutions to request business. In a statement on…
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Professor Thomas Tony Onyango Mboya has been brutally murdered at his home in Kakrigu, Rusinga Island, Homa Bay County, in a suspected land dispute. The attacker, reportedly armed with a panga, caught him off guard and ended his life. Until his death, Prof. Tom Mboya was a respected scholar and the Director of the School…